Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Richardstown (ardee By., Richardstown Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Richardstown (ardee By., Richardstown Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85951, -6.48225
- SMR number
- LH017-115001-
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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
This was the third phase of activity at this site (Excavation Licence 99E0526) and consisted of two large pits that were located approximately 10m to the N of a Neolithic house (LH017-113----) and a Bronze Age furnace (LH017-114----). One pit appeared to be cut by the other and a token deposit of cremated bone was recovered from the later one. A number of flint flakes were recovered from the fill of both pits. (Byrnes 2000, 222)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 29 June 2012
References
Byrnes, E. 2000 Richardstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 221-2 (No. 637). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.