Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Rockmarshall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockmarshall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 54.01315, -6.30079
- SMR number
- LH008-026001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Situated close to a second midden (LH008-026002-) on the edge of a morainic ridge, near the entrance to a former lagoon. This midden was of indeterminate size (T c. 2m) and consisted mainly of oysters (Ostrea edulis) and periwinkles (Littorina littorea). Flints found in association with the midden were 7 single-platform cores, 99 blades and flakes, 2 butt-trimmed flakes and a rough scraper (CLAJ 1947, 169-74). This assemblage can be assigned to the latest phases of the Irish Mesolithic (Woodman 1978, 306-8).
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.