Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gorey Corporation Lands, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorey Corporation Lands
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67204, -6.29644
- SMR number
- WX007-080----
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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
Situated on a slight E-facing slope c. 350m SW of the original Gorey town (WX007-033----). Archaeological testing (06E0089) of an extensive area produced evidence of archaeological features at three points that were furhter investigated. One proved to be an oval pit (dims 3.68m x 1.4m; D 0.3m) containing silty clays with charcoal and some burnt stone. About 45m to the N was a small pit (diam. 0.68m x 0.49m; T 0.12m) again filled with silty clay in an area that had produced one sherd of prehistoric pottery during testing. About 140m SE of the first pit was a rectangular pit (dims 1.2m N-S; 0.66m E-W; D 0.1m) filled with a charcoal-flecked silty clay. (Bayley 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 Marche, 2012
References
Bayley, D. 2009 Gorey Corporation Lands, Gorey. Possible occupation site. In I. Bennett. Excavations 2005. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 557, No. 2111. Wordwell, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.