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Excavation - miscellaneous

Gibbethill, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Gibbethill, 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
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 Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

Nearby in the register

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

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