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Burial

Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial, Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.), 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
Woodstown (Middlethird By., Killoteran Par.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24943, -7.19562
SMR number
WA009-019001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The burial of a Viking warrior was excavated outside the defences of enclosure (WA009-019----) at N. It consisted of a pit (dims. 1.5m x 0.85m; D 0.2m) which contained no human remains. However, it did contain arms and armour, including a sword, a spear-head and ferule, a small blade, a probable sword pommel, a broken iron axe, a battle-axe, and the iron boss of a shield. (O'Brien et al. 2005, 35; Russell and Harrison 2011, 66-7)

O'Brien, R., Quinney, P. and Russell, I. (2005) 'Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Excavation and Finds Retrieval Strategy of the Hiberno-Scandinavian Site of Woodstown 6, County Waterford'. Decies No. 61, 13-122.
Russell, I. and S. H. Harrison (2011) Woodstown 6, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 53-72. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 November 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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