Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Balgatheran, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balgatheran
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75051, -6.41170
- SMR number
- LH021-077----
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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
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0943). Four pits found c. 5m to the W of a cremation (LH021-076----). Two were oval shaped (max. diam. of each 0.42m), while the third was circular (diam. c. 0.22m). They were filled with charcoal flecked soil and contained no finds. The fourth was of irregular shape (3.7m E-W x 0.85m N-S) and appeared to have been truncated. Six sherds of coarse Bronze Age pottery were found on a metalled surface at the base of this pit. (Campbell 2001, 5; Campbell 2002, 212-3)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
References
Campbell, K. 2001 Preliminary report: archaeological excavation Northern Motorway (Gormanstown to Monasterboice) Balgatheran 2, Co. Louth. Unpublished archaeological report.
Campbell, K. 2002 Balgatheran 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 212-3 (No. 639). Bray. Wordwell.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.