Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Priestsnewtown, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Priestsnewtown
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11615, -6.08975
- SMR number
- WI013-101----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
An annular ditch (diam. c. 13m; D 0.19m – 0.43m) excavated as part of the construction work associated with the Greystones Southern Access Route (Excavation Licence 04E0401). The enclosed area of the ditch contained 22 post-holes and three cremation which were placed in Late Bronze Age vessels. A series of pits, post-holes, a cremation (also placed in a Late Bronze Age vessel) and a number of linear ditches (one of which extended beyond the limit of the road take) were found outside the annual ditch. (Wiggins 2007, 490-2).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 9 January 2013
References
Wiggins, K. 2007 'GSAR Sites 6/6A-G, Priestnewtown'. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 490-2 (No. 1883). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.