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Metalworking site

Gorey Corporation Lands, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Gorey Corporation Lands, 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
Gorey Corporation Lands
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not lindicated
Coordinates
52.67346, -6.29721
SMR number
WX007-082----

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Archaeological monitoring and excavation (07E0865) recovered evidence of metalworking in a small area (dims. c. 10m N-S; c. 7.5m E-W). This included two furnace-bottoms as hemispherical pits (diam. 0.9m; D 0.32m: diam. 1.53m; D 0.5m), both of which were fired twice, and were probably specialising in the production of bronze. The larger furnace produced a C 14 determination of 790 +- 18 BP (1219-1269 cal. 2 sigma).
(Bolger 2009; 2010)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload 16 March, 2012

References

Bolger, T. 2010 Gorey Civic Centre, The Avenue, Gorey. Urban. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary descriptions of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 547, No. 1956. Dublin. Wordwell.

Bolger, T. 2009 Archaeological monitoring and excavatins, Gorey Civic Offices, Gorey, County Wicklow. (sic) Unpublished report. Margaret Gowen and Co.

Nearby in the register

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

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