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Archaeological Development Services Ltd, having been commissioned by Louth County Council, the Roads Service NI (Department for Regional Development) and the National Roads Authority carried out archaeological assessment along the route of the proposed A1/N1 Newry-Dundalk Road. The route consists of 14.2km of 2-lane dual carriageway with 5.7km of associated link roads from Cloghoge roundabout, south of Newry to the Ballymascanlan interchange north of Dundalk. As part of the road development, a number of archaeological and historic sites were within the construction zone of the road scheme and were determined eligible for excavation before the construction began. This site was located to the west of Site 114A, situated on gently sloping ground at the foot of a slope. There was a linear ditch running east to west between the two baulks for 33.5m, with two cultivation furrows running parallel to the west. Around halfway along the length of this ditch was another, perpendicular to the first, running for 7m into the southern baulk. East of the angle formed by these two ditches was a smaller linear feature running parallel to the main ditch. There was a faint, rightangled return west of this feature, which seemed to indicate some small structure, within the angle of the larger ditches. A corresponding return was not present to the east of the feature, although the test trench here had cut into the subsoil and may have removed any remaining traces. Both the larger and smaller east to west ditches appeared to cut through a stone spread to the east of the cutting. Excavation of the larger ditches produced post-medieval pottery and a flat, metal knife blade. North of these ditches were a series of oval or circular features, in a range of sizes, some with stony, silty fills, with some of the smaller ones having charcoal-rich fills. Excavation showed that some of these were probably natural features, while others seemed to have been stone sockets resulting from former field clearance. Furrows indicated that cultivation had formerly been attempted here. Some of the smaller features seemed to have been deliberately cut, perhaps as postholes, and a small fragment of coarse pottery indicated that some of these may have been archaeological in nature. However, no structure could be inferred from them. An hourglass-shaped feature in the northeastern corner of the cutting proved to be a grain dryer, the deeper, northern, chamber containing much charcoal, with the surrounding subsoil displaying signs of oxidation. The date of this feature is uncertain; these simple structures were in use from the medieval period onwards.