2008:055 - Creeveroe/Navan/Tirearly/Tray, Armagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Armagh Site name: Creeveroe/Navan/Tirearly/Tray

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/08/119

Author: Tina Thurston, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo 380 MFAC, Ellicott Complex, Buffalo NY 14261–0005, USA.

Site type: Sampling

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 684633m, N 845202m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.348474, -6.698218

A soil chemical characterisation survey was undertaken over an area of about 1km2 around the site of Navan Fort. Soil samples were taken every 50m and geochemical testing in a field laboratory revealed numerous areas of significantly elevated soil phosphate that are likely to represent archaeological sites from various eras.