County: Louth Site name: MELL (6)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0940
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 705713m, N 777311m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.734720, -6.397737
A shallow pit, damaged by bulldozer tracks during topsoil removal on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass), measured 0.83m x 0.58m and was 0.14m deep. Sherds of coarse pottery, some heat-fractured stones and portion of a large granite maul(?) were recovered.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda
