Hut site

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the top of a S-facing slope. First identified in archaeological testing (02E0275) in advance of the N25 Waterford City by-pass (Russell (2006f), and fully excavated ((03E1217) as structures 1 and 3, which are part of Adamstown 3 (Russell 2006g).
This is a complex but confined area (diam. c. 10m) with numerous post-holes, segments of a slot trench S-W (C c. 4m) and two hearths representing two huts at this location. It may have had a porch entrance at SE. One post-hole was packed with a fragment of a saddle-quern, and the fill of another post-hole produced a C14 date of cal BC 1700-1430 (Russell 2003). Hut-site (WA017-123002-) is c. 5m to the NE and hut-site (WA017-123003-) is c. 12m to the NW. (Russell and Ginn 2009a, 8-12; 2011b)

Russell, I. (2006f) Site 3, Adamstown/Knockanagh. Testing. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 489-90, No. 1851. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2006g) Site 3, Adamstown. Prehistoric houses. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 491, No. 1854. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. and Ginn (2009a) N25 Waterford By-pass. Contract 1. Final report on the archaeological excavation of Adamstown 3. Unpublished report. DOEHG. Archaeological Consultancy Services.
Russell, I. and V. Ginn (2011b) Adamstonwn 3, 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, 30-7. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 May 2011