Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gibbethill, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gibbethill
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26710, -7.13812
- SMR number
- WA009-037----
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on an E-facing slope of Gibbet Hill. Archaeological testing (05E0421) in an area of c. 10 ha identified a pit (diam. 0.47-0.54m; D 0.22m) with a larger pit (diam. 1.9-2.1m; D 0.25m) containing charcoal and cut in an oxidised subsoil c. 15m to the ENE. A third pit (diam. 0.33m; D 8cm) was adjacent to the largest pit. (Gleeson 2008)
Gleeson, C. (2008) Bowes Head, Gibbet Hill, Gracedieu. Testing. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 363, No. 1493. Wordwell. Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.