County: Louth Site name: NEWTOWN–MONASTERBOICE (Site 5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0941
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 704358m, N 780921m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.767423, -6.417042
A one-day excavation on a new farm access lane on the Northern Motorway (Drogheda Bypass) recorded a series of severely truncated prehistoric pits. Seven pits, 0.14–0.55m in diameter and 0.03–0.07m deep, had fills of greyish-brown, silty clay and occasional charcoal. An additional four pits conjoined in line had overall dimensions of 1.4m x 0.3m. A small deposit of cremated bone was recovered from one of the four pits. This site extended eastwards beyond the limit of the farm lane.
6 St Ultan’s, Laytown, Drogheda
