Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.72798, -6.39709
- SMR number
- LH024-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 00E0430). Located immediately to E of a ring-ditch (LH024-062----) and just N of a cemetery (LH024-054----) and cremation pyre (LH024-055----). Consisted of an annular ditch (average Wth 2m; D 1.65m) with parallel sides and rounded ends, measuring 19.26m E-W x 11.91m N-S (externally). A number of re-cuts were noted and a large number of finds recovered including burnt bone (human and animal), Bronze Age pottery, struck flint and a decorated glass bead. A shallow linear feature cut into the SE of the ditch and ran diagonally across the interior of the site terminating in a pit just a short distance from the enclosing ditch at the NW. Sixteen postholes were cut into the base of this linear feature, two of which displayed evidence of in-situ burning. (Chapple 2003, 266-7)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 July 2013
References
Chapple, R. 2003 Mell 2. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 266-7, no. 869. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.