County: Louth Site name: THOMASTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0553
Author: James McKee, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 700951m, N 806787m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.000449, -6.460185
The plough-truncated remains of a fulacht fiadh were revealed during monitoring of topsoil-stripping (see AD19, Excavations 2006, 06E0142), along the route of a gas pipeline from the existing BGE facilities in Gormanstown, Co. Meath to an interconnecting point with the North-West pipeline to the north of Belfast at Ballyalbanagh, Co. Antrim. The site was situated in an area of low-lying improved pasture, within marshy ground and c. 25m south of a small east–west flowing burn. The remains consisted of an irregular spread of black, heavily charcoal-flecked soil and heat-shattered stone extending from the western side of the 25m-wide route corridor. The spread measured c. 12m north–south by c. 7m and up to 0.1m deep. A flint scraper was recovered but no features were revealed.
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