County: Louth Site name: Site 19, Haynestown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0476
Author: Gill McLoughlin, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 9 Albert Terrace, Meath Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Pits and post-holes
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 705440m, N 802517m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.961197, -6.393220
Excavation of this site took place at a planned housing scheme. The site was one of a number identified as a result of extensive testing (Excavations 2005, No. 1078, 05E0963).
A concentration of four pits and five post-holes was excavated. The main feature was a shallow pit measuring 2.1m by 1.6m by 0.19m filled with firm, mid-yellow/brown silty clay with occasional pockets of charcoal-rich dark-brown silty clay. Most of the pits and post-holes were located to the west of this pit and might indicate a shelter for whatever activity was taking place at the larger pit. The features here could be associated with features at nearby sites 06E0475, a kiln (c. 40m to the north-west, see No. 1374 above), and 06E0472, a hearth (c. 90m to the south-west, see No. 1373 above). No finds were recovered from any of the features.
