What is recorded here

Thirty metres east, a similar hoard of Earlier Mesolithic flints already lay buried in the sand coves, waiting for the tide to reveal them. The golf course trench cut through that old patience in 2019, exposing twenty-four stones still nested together where hands had worked them beside Lough Foyle. Modern irrigation machinery merely opened a chamber that human ingenuity had sealed centuries before writing, roadworks or museums existed.

At the W end of Greencastle golf course. Situated on level ground c. 80m from a rocky shoreline indented with a small sandy coves, on the NW side of the narrow entrance into Lough Foyle. This assemblage of 24 worked flints, including cores, flakes and debitage, was recovered in 2019. The bulk of the lithics were found in situ in a narrow, shallow trench which was dug to lay an irrigation water pipe for the golf course. A few displaced flints were found scattered on the surface nearby. The discovery was reported to the National Monuments Service and the National Museum of Ireland, and the lithics were subsequently transferred to the Museum. A large assemblage of lithics (DG022-010----; DG022-011; DG022-012----; DG022-013----), dating to the Earlier Mesolithic period, was recovered in the late 1990’s from the intertidal zone at the two small sandy coves which lie 100m and 250m to E. Notified to NMS by Brian McNaught. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2021

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