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The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Situated near the other middens (LH008-026001-, LH008-026002-) at the top of the morainic ridge. Oval in plan (33m ENE-WSW, 13m NNW-SSE, T 1m). No record of the relative occurrences of the various types of shell (CLAJ 1949, 14-20), but the most common types appear to have been oysters (Ostrea edulis) and periwinkles (Littorina littorea). Flint associated with the midden consisted of 7 cores, 143 blades and flakes and 3 butt-trimmed flakes. Woodman (1978, 308) notes that there was an element of flint substitution on the site, as evidenced by one large chert butt-trimmed flake and several flakes of sandstone and igneous rock. The assemblage is regarded by Woodman as characteristic of the latest phases of the Irish Mesolithic, and this is borne out by a radiocarbon date of 3520 ± 110 BC (I-5323) obtained from a charcoal sample from the midden (Woodman 1978, 17; Radiocarbon 1973, 295; PPS 1971, 274-83; PRIA 1940, 1-84).
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