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Excavation - miscellaneous

Williamstown (Gaultiere By.), County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Williamstown, 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
Williamstown (Gaultiere By.)
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23723, -7.09611
SMR number
WA017-121001-

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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)
  • 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

First identified by Linda Hegarty of Headland Archaeology in centre-line testing (03E1174) for the Waterford city outer ring road (Hegarty 2006, P 509, 1921), and subsequently excavated (031755) by Caitríona Gleeson of Headland Archaeology. Evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of post-holes and a possible cremation pit were recovered c. 20m W of the fosse of rath (WA017-121----). A C14 determination of 1929-1741 cal. BC, suggesting an Early Bronze Age date was recovered from a post-hole, but pottery from the same context is Mid - Late Bronze Age in character. The cremation pit (dims. 0.44 x 0.38m; D 0.24m) with human bone produced a date of 1873-1637 cal. BC, within the Early Bronze Age (Gleeson 2006; 2010, 8-10).

Gleeson, C. (2006) Williamstown. Prehistoric. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 516-17, No. 1944. Wordwell. Bray.
Gleeson, C. (2010) A ringfort and nearby area of prehistoric activity, Williamstown, Co. Waterford: report on an archaeological excavation undertaken prior to the construction of the R710 Waterford outer relief road. Decies, No. 66, 1-34.
Hegarty, L. (2006a) Waterford outer ring road: pits, stake-holes, ditches. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 509, No. 1921. Wordwell. Bray.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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