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Excavation - miscellaneous

Pilltown, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Pilltown, 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
Pilltown
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.97473, -7.80404
SMR number
WA037-054----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a low-lying landscape with a N-S stream c. 40m to the W and an E-W stream c. 100m to the N. It was excavated (E3569) as the W part of Area 5 during 2006 on the N side of the existing road as part of the N25 road re-alignment scheme. Four adjacent pits were excavated. One (diam. 0.7m; D 0.15) contained some flints. Immediately to the S a second pit (diam. diam. 0.75m; D 0.2m) contained no artefacts, but the third oval pit (dims 0.85m N-S; 0.6m E-W; D 0.16m) was 1.6m to the W, and contained silty clay with charcoal flecks, flint debitage, and a sherd of a Neolithic carinated bowl. Just to its S a fourth pit (dims. 0.8m x 0.6m; D 0.2m) also had flint debitage, but also produced a C14 date of cal BC 1952-1745. (Hegarty 2007c, 7-8, 10)

Hegarty, L. (2007c) N25 Kilsalebeg Realignment. Final report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the townlands of Shancoole and Pillotown, Co. Waterford. Headland Archaeology

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 07 October 2011

References

Hegarty, L. 2007 N25 Kilsalebeg Realignment. Final report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in the townlands of Shancoole and Pillotown, Co. Waterford. Headland Archaeology

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

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