Excavation - miscellaneous

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 Ballydawmore 4 (Hardy et al. 2010, 81). It is situated on a slight S-facing slope with an E-W stream c. 280m to the S. Excavation (E4278) by C. Hardy recorded a U-sectioned ditch (Wth 1.4m; D 0.25m; L 20m plus) running E-W and curving to the N at either end. Leinster cooking ware was recovered from the upper fill of the ditch, which cut an E-W gully (Wth c. 1m; D 0.4m; L 22.8m plus) that lay to its N but curved to the S at either end. The gully produced no artefacts, and the only other feature was a small pit or post-hole (dims 0.38m x 0.26m; D 0.25m) just S of the ditch at the W edge of the excavation. The unrelated fulacht fia (WX020-111----) is c. 40m to the NE and the metal-working site (WX020-112----) is c. 150m to the SE. (McNamara 2012; Hardy 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

References

McNamara, M. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford, E4278, Ballydawmore 4. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

Hardy, C. 2013 Ballydawmore 4. Ditches. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 220, No. 696. Dublin. Wordwell.

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 Unpublished.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).