County: Louth Site name: DUNBIN LITTLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0556
Author: Finola O’Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 699823m, N 804615m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.981153, -6.478092
Monitoring was carried out in 2001 during the course of the excavation of foundation trenches for an extension to a cottage. A ruined church (SMR 7:73) lies nearby to the north.
Five foundation trenches were excavated by mechanical digger. Much of the area had been disturbed by the construction of the existing driveway, patio and extension, and the ground level to the rear of the house has been raised.
The first trench abutted the cottage at its southern end and here 0.2m of loose rubble fill was exposed, overlying a further 0.2m of brown gritty soil. The subsoil was yellow boulder clay. Trench B also abutted and exposed the foundation of the existing cottage 0.3m down, directly over boulder clay, while in the rest of the trench a loose gritty soil was exposed.
Trench C exposed a gritty rubble fill overlying a rough cobbled surface, probably representing the floor of an outbuilding. Underneath this 0.1–0.2m of loose gritty soil covered boulder clay. In Trenches D and E loose brown garden soil overlay boulder clay. A similar garden soil was exposed in Trench E.
No finds, features or deposits of archaeological interest were exposed.
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