County: Louth Site name: SUMMERHILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0636
Author: Finola O’Carroll, Cultural Resource Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 697569m, N 801695m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.955359, -6.513385
Pre-development testing in advance of the construction of a single dwelling-house was undertaken on 4 October 2001. The site lies within the 300m constraint ring of SMR 11:44, a complex consisting of five ring-ditches, a possible stone cairn and two larger enclosures. These are identifiable only as cropmarks, and all lie to the south of the site and across a modern road.
Six trenches were excavated by mechanical digger, covering 25% of the footprint. The subsoil exposed was a silty boulder clay with an abundance of shale varying in colour from yellow to gray. A shallow layer of yellow clay overlay the subsoil, and above this c. 0.3m of a brown silty loam topsoil. The trenches to the south-east exposed a plastic silty clay subsoil.
No features of archaeological interest were exposed.
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