County: Louth Site name: Mt Avenue, Farrandreg, Dundalk
Sites and Monuments Record No.: Vicinity of LH007-034-- & LH007-133- Licence number: 17E0501
Author: Liam Coen c/o Archer Heritage Planning
Site type: Testing - no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 703300m, N 807932m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.010264, -6.423990
Four trenches were proposed to be excavated in three extra parcels of land being assessed within a larger development site that had been subject to earlier geophysical survey (14R0135) and test-excavations (14E0446). The first trench was abandoned after discovering the ground had been previously disturbed from an earlier drainage scheme. The remaining trenches were truncated due to the combination of overhead power lines and the extent of disturbed ground in the site. Subsoil consisted of loose orange and light brown stony sandy clay with occasional large boulders. Topsoil was 0.25m to 0.4m deep across the site with an orangey brown stony, sandy clay plough-zone below this evident across the majority of the trenches. Deeper areas corresponded to areas of modern fill material along the eastern side of the site. No archaeological features were identified during the test excavation.
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