Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cremation pit
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.72798, -6.39709
- SMR number
- LH024-055----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered prior to construction of the M1 motorway in 2000 (Excavation Licence 00E0430). A triangular pit (1m x 0.75m) filled with ash, charcoal, burnt clay and fragments of cremated bone. Postholes found around this pit were filled with the same material as the main pit. Situated immediately to the E of cemetery (LH024-054----) and just S of a ring ditch (LH024-062----) and Bronze Age enclosure (LH024-063----) and possibly associated with the latter two. (Breen 2002, 235)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 26 June 2013
References
Breen, T. 2002 Mell 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 235 (No. 695). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.