1999:634 - RICHARDSTOWN 4, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: RICHARDSTOWN 4

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0200

Author: Matthew Seaver for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.

Site type: Pit

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 702143m, N 790908m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.857573, -6.447321

This site was found during stripping in the east of Richardstown townland. It was a dark brown/black spread of charcoal-stained clay, 2.02m east-west by 1.9m. The deposit was up to 0.2m deep and filled a subrectangular trough cut through orange/brown, sandy, natural clay.

To the north of this a soft, orange, silty clay was revealed. A test-trench dug into this clay revealed a narrow channel filled with grey, charcoal-flecked marl at 24.768m OD. The two features did not appear to be contemporary. No further features were uncovered in this area.

No artefacts were recovered, and a sample is currently being processed for radiocarbon dating.

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