County: Louth Site name: DROGHEDA : Constitution Hill/North Strand (Michael Black's Joinery)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0376
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 709127m, N 775217m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.715211, -6.346750
The site is located to the east of the length of the town wall which runs from Laurence’s Gate down to the river. It lies approx. 50m east of the line of the wall and therefore presumably outside the line of the town ditch, if there was one. This area is shown as lying within an area of expansion eastwards in the first half of the 13th century.
The same stratigraphy was exposed in three test-trenches, although the layers varied in depth. It comprised building rubble on the surface, overlying a layer of loose dark grey/black soil containing charcoal, brick, coal, large animal bones, oyster, cockle and mussel shells and clay pipe stems. A small amount of late 17th/18th-century black-glazed and tin-glazed ware was found in this layer.
The underlying natural material was gravel with large pebbles in a clay matrix.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
