County: Louth Site name: HAGGARDSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0132
Author: Catherine McLoughlin, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Fulachta fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 705324m, N 803655m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.971440, -6.394594
Excavation took place at Haggardstown, Co. Louth, from 22 May to 9 June 2000. The site was discovered in January 1999, along with ten others that were excavated under licence number 98E0440 ext. (Excavations 1999, 213–15).
The site consisted of a shallow, subrectangular spread of charcoal-rich, silty clay, which measured 12m north–south by 12m. It contained a high percentage of heat-shattered sandstone. A similar large spread of stone and soil was situated immediately to the north-west. This measured 10m north–south by 4m and upon excavation was found to consist of the remains of a large cut, which contained three troughs and three post-holes. One single sherd of E ware was found in the upper fill of the large cut, and all the features were filled by similar deposits of heat-shattered sandstone and charcoal-rich, silty clay.
Several other features were excavated to the north and east of the large feature, including two more troughs.
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