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.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 684633m, N 845202m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.348474, -6.698218
Test excavations (1m by 1m) were performed at about twenty locations with elevated phosphate levels within 1km2 of Navan Fort, discovered during a 2008 soil chemical characterisation survey. The majority could be linked to sites from various historic periods: medieval, early modern, and 19th century, through ceramic chronologies. Several showed evidence of cultural layers with fire-cracked rock, charcoal and burnt clay but no historic materials, and probably represent prehistoric sites. Charcoal samples were collected for 14C dating.
