2006:1370 - Site 2, Haynestown, Louth

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Louth Site name: Site 2, Haynestown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0976

Author: David Bayley, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 9 Albert Terrace, Meath Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Site type: Burnt spreads

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 705821m, N 802642m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.962242, -6.387375

Site 2 comprised two burnt spreads. One of these measured 13.25m by 9.3m by 0.19m deep, while the second measured 11m by 9m by 0.08m. Five pits were associated with these two spreads and may have served as troughs. One piece of non-diagnostic flint was the only find recovered from the site.