Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt spread
Clone, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clone
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56889, -6.50324
- SMR number
- WX015-023009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 fairly steep W-facing slope overlooking an E-W stream c. 60m to the W and Clone church (WX015-023001-) that is c. 120m to the WSW. Archaeological testing (06E0287) produced archaeological features in many trenches including a spread of soil (L 4m) that contained burnt stone, charcoal, burnt bone and slag. The excavated features (WX015-023010-) are c. 30m to the SE. (McLouhglin 2006, 5-6; 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May, 2012
References
McLoughlin, C. 2009 Clone. Medieval? in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 553, No. 2094. Dublin, Wordwell
McLoughlin, C. 2006a Archaeological testing report, Clone, Ferns, Co. Wexford. Archaeological licence No. 06E0287. Unpublished report. Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.