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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 Quarry 2 (Hardy et al. 2010, 50). It is situated at the bottom of a SW-facing slope with an E-W stream 20m to the S and a smaller NE-SW stream is c. 40m to the N. The smaller stream meets the larger c. 90m to the W. It was completely excavated (E4261) by Y. Whitty as a spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 8m E-W; 4m N-S; T 0.1m) lying over a rectangular trough (dims 2.25m E-W; 1.4m N-S; D 0.4m) that appeared to cut a subcircular feature (dims 1.4m E-W; 1.1m N-S; D 0.1m) at N. A pit (dims 0.95m x 0.6m; D 0.3m) was 3m SSW of the trough. All the features contained burnt mound material, but a sample from the S pit proved to be modern. (Hardy and McNamara 2012; Whitty 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 26 November, 2013

References

Whitty, Y. 2013 Quarry 2. Burnt spread, trough and pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 201o: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 257-8, No. 810. Dublin. Wordwell.

Hardy, C. and McNamara, M. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4261, Quarry 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 Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).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 Unpublished.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).