1998:435 - DROGHEDA: 9/10 Mill Lane, Louth
County: Louth
Site name: DROGHEDA: 9/10 Mill Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 24:41
Licence number: 98E0404
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 708332m, N 775752m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.720182, -6.358598
A site on Mill Lane, Drogheda, Co. Louth, was excavated in advance of a proposed residential development. Mill Lane runs south towards the river from Trinity Street and was outside the medieval walled town.
Three trenches were excavated. Trench 1 was 6m long and 1.1m deep. A layer of brown rubble was excavated to 1m, after which a layer of rich, humic garden soil containing red brick, glass fragments and animal bone was exposed. It extended to a depth of 2.2m and directly overlay a sterile, grey/brown loam.
Trench 2 ran east-west and was 5m long and 1.5m wide. Red brick and rubble was excavated to 1.2m, below which humic garden soil with red brick fabric was revealed. It overlay natural, orange boulder clay at 2m.
Trench 3 was excavated from the north-west corner of the site and was 6m long, 1.5m wide and 2m deep. It contained the same stratigraphy as Trench 2.
No archaeological features or objects were recovered.