County: Donegal Site name: THE QUAYS, Ramelton
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 30:5 Licence number: 99E0636
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 622754m, N 921286m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.038578, -7.644016
Monitoring was carried out of the excavation of lift shaft trenches and foundation trenches and general ground reduction to an existing mill building and bottle factory in the vicinity of the site of an earlier castle at The Quays, Ramelton, Co. Donegal, between 22 October and 9 November 1999.
The natural subsoil was sealed by a dark brown, silty clay that contained a number of sherds of post-medieval pottery and modern rubble with frequent red brick, slate, tiles etc. The uppermost strata are interpreted as representing redeposited archaeological layers/formation deposits for the building of the warehouse/mill buildings, and the deposits in Lift shaft 1 as material deposited to facilitate land reclamation or deeper excavations for the construction of the upstanding buildings.
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