County: Louth Site name: Haynestown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0468
Author: Gill McLoughlin, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 705789m, N 802431m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.960353, -6.387935
Excavation of Site 6 took place from 11 September to 2 November 2007 in association with a planned housing scheme. The site was one of a number identified as a result of an extensive programme of testing carried out under licence 05E0963 (Excavations 2005, No. 1078).
A burnt mound was excavated at the site. It was located c. 20m from the edge of a stream and c. 40m north-east of Site 7 (see No. 1193 below, 06E0469), also a burnt mound. The burnt-mound deposit overlay five subrectangular troughs, a large irregular pit interpreted as a waterhole and a deep oval trough which showed evidence of having been lined with clay.
