County: Louth Site name: DRUMAD (Area 9)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A002/103
Author: Sinclair Turrell, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 707769m, N 815562m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.077891, -6.353121
This site was situated at the edge of forestry in a dip on an east-facing slope, providing natural drainage from the hills above. It was close to a souterrain (SMR 4:1) and was discovered during Phase 1 testing. An area measuring 40m by 30m was stripped of topsoil revealing a modern field drain running east–west, cut through stony material which had been used to fill a natural hollow prior to 19th-century cultivation. This dumped material, which was heavily silted, also contained some burnt stony material, which may have been derived from earlier, possibly prehistoric, activity.
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