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The National Monuments Service's description

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Effernoge 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 65). It is situated in the valley of a NE-SW stream, with a SE-NW section of the stream immediately to the S. It was excavated (E4234) by M. McNamara who uncovered a layer of burnt stone material (dims 8.8m x 5.4m; T 0.4m) that that extends outside the excavated area to the NW and NE. It overlay a rectangular, flat-bottom pit or trough (dims c. 2m N-S; 1.3m E-W; D 0.7m) filled with an alluvial deposit. A pit (0.9m x 0.6m; D 0.45m) 0.3m to the NE was filled with burnt stone material, and a possible fire-spot (dims 0.9m x 0.6m plus), represented by fire-reddened clay was just N of the trough. A curving section of a palaeochannel (Wth 1.9m plus; exposed L 5.4m) was explored at the S edge of the site. A sample from the pit produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 1007-846. The burnt mound (WX011-077----) is c. 270m directly to the ENE, although the stream loops to the S between the sites. (McNamara 2012; 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

References

McNamara, M. 2013 Effernoge 2. Burnt-stone deposits, trough, pits, fire-spots and palaeochannel. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 243-4, No. 757. Dublin. Wordwell.

McNamara, M. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4234, Effernoge 2. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

Hardy, C., Nugent, L., Homan Reid, R; O'Liathain, N; Whitty, Y.; and Coleman, C. 2010 N11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (1)a. E4110. Testing report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished. TVAS (Ireland).