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Enclosure

Ask, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ask, County Wexford, 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
Ask
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70857, -6.25880
SMR number
WX007-076014-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (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

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 a possible funerary enclosure - structure E - in area C, and is located c. 25m SE of ring-ditch (WX007-076009-) in Area B. It is a penannular enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by a slot-trench (Wth 0.5m; D 0.3m), with an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at NNE marked by post-holes at the termini of the slot-trench. There are some post-holes in the slot-trench close to the opening. At the centre are nine cremation pits in a small area (dims 6m N-S; 3m E-W). The central cremation pit was the largest (diam. 1m; D 0.13m). There were no lithics and one of the peripheral cremation pits produced a bronze cross-mount (dim. c. 3cm) of 8th century AD date, suggesting a Viking-era date and origin for the enclosure. (Stevens 2008a, 392; 2008, 48-53)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

References

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

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.

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

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