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Excavation - miscellaneous

Mayfield Or Rocketscastle, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Mayfield Or Rocketscastle, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mayfield Or Rocketscastle
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.29922, -7.30684
SMR number
WA008-044002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A cist (WA008-044001-) with a single lintel which contained a 9th/10th-century AD decorated strap-tag of English type and traces of a possible inhumation burial. The surrounding soil and nearby pits (diam. c. 0.24-0.5m; D 0.13-0.24m) contained charcoal flecks and calcified animal bone. One pit contained a small, crude earthenware vessel like a pygmy cup. (Gowen 1988, 162-9)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of Upload: 4th November, 2010.

References

Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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