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Louth<br />

although no houses were identified. Other indicators <strong>of</strong> habitation included a variety <strong>of</strong> pins<br />

made from bronze, iron and bone, blue glass beads, bone combs and belt buckles. Functional<br />

domestic items were represented by over 1000 sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware, iron knives, spindle<br />

whorls and the ploughshare and coulter mentioned above. Iron slag and a crucible mould<br />

also testify to metalworking at the site.<br />

Fig. 222: Plan <strong>of</strong> phases at Faughart Lower, Co. Louth (after Bowen 2008, 11).<br />

References:<br />

Bayley, D. 2003:1286. Newtownbalregan, Co. Louth. www.excavations.ie.<br />

Bowen, P. 2008 Settlement and burial at Faughart Lower. Seanda 3, 9–11. Dublin. National<br />

Roads Authority.<br />

Delaney, S. 2003:1272. Carn More, Faughart, Co. Louth. www.excavations.ie.<br />

Delaney, S. 2010. An early medieval landscape at Balriggan, Co. Louth, in C. Corlett and M.<br />

Potterton (eds.) Death and Burial in Early Medieval Ireland, in Light <strong>of</strong> Recent Archaeological<br />

Excavations, 116–29. Dublin. Wordwell.<br />

Hayes, A. 2006. Archaeological investigation <strong>of</strong> a souterrain at Tateetra, Dundalk, Co. Louth,<br />

in J. O’Sullivan and M. Stanley (eds.) Settlement, Industry and Ritual, National Roads<br />

Authority Monograph Series 3, 53–62. Dublin. National Roads Authority. Wordwell.<br />

Roycr<strong>of</strong>t, N. 2005. Around the bay on the Great North Road: the archaeology <strong>of</strong> the M1<br />

Dundalk Western Bypass, in J. O’Sullivan and M. Stanley (eds.) Recent Archaeological<br />

Discoveries on National Road Schemes 2004, National Roads Authority Monograph Series 2,<br />

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