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Excavation - miscellaneous

Raheenagurren West, County Wexford, Ireland

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Townland
Raheenagurren West
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.66150, -6.27877
SMR number
WX012-034007-

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated (E3491) during 2005 by T. Breen as part of Site 27 at Raheenagurren West, which was one of the excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of the N11 Arklow-Gorey link-road. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope, S of a marl-pit that is probably post-medieval. Concentrations of post-holes, sometimes with metalled surfaces, and a hearth are associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and one Neolithic sherd. In a different area four pits (dims. c. 1.7m x 0.7m) produced a blue glass bead. The rath (WX012-003----) is c. 80m to the NW, the fulacht fia (WX012-034008-) is c. 90m to the NW, and the kilns (WX012-034006-) are c. 30m to the S. (Breen 2008; 2008a)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13 April, 2012

References

Breen, T. C. 2008a Site 27, Raheenagurren West. Bronze Age structure mounds. in Bennett, I. (ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 409-10, No. 1670. Wordwell, Dublin.

Breen, T. C. 2008 N11 Gorey to Arklow link: Preliminary Report E3491 A003/019 Site 27-29, Raheenagurren West, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report: V. J. Keeley Ltd.

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