County: Louth Site name: LAGAVOOREN, Drogheda
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0629
Author: Richard O’Brien, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Pit and Burial
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 708946m, N 774705m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.710651, -6.349670
Monitoring of drainage works in Lagavooren townland uncovered traces of archaeological deposits. A rescue excavation was carried out from 1 to 2 August 2000, and two subsoil-cut pits with an associated metalled surface were found. No in situ finds or dating evidence were recovered from the pits. However, a barbed and tanged arrowhead and a sherd of blackware were found on the surface beside the pits.
In the same townland, but not associated with the pits, a number of disarticulated human bones were found. These bones represented the remains of a female in her twenties. The lack of associated finds precluded a date for the bones. It is hoped that an AMS date on the bones will shed some light on their origin.
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