Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Ask, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ask
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.70915, -6.25814
- SMR number
- WX007-076004-
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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
This site was excavated (E3502) during 2005 as a part of a complex area know as Site 42-44 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. An extensive area (dims. 250m N-S 48-60m E-W) across the road-take was excavated, but geophysical survey indicates that activity extended outside this to the E, W and SW. Situated on the lower NW-facing slope of Ask Hill.
This is ring-ditdh I in area A, a circular area (int. diam. 7m; ext. diam. 8-9m) defined by a penannular ditch (Wth 0.6-0.9m; D 0.25) with openings at W (Wth 3.6m) and N (Wth 1.85m). The ditch contained 169 quartz and flint artefacts, small quantites of cremated bone, and a single sherd of pottery. The ditch at E cuts a cremation pit of structure (WX007-076005-) and marked it with a post, indicating that it post-dates it. (Stevens 2008a, 392; 2008, 25-6)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2012
References
Stevens, P. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Archaeogical Resolution. Preliminary Report A003/020 E3502 Site 42-44, Ask townland, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.
Stevens, P. 2008a Sites 42-44, Ask. Burial complex: standing stone, ring-ditch, penannular burial enclosure. in I. Bennett Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 391-4, No. 1603. Wordwell. Dublin
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Pit alignmentunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.