Ring-ditch

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 Knockrathkyle 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 11-3). It is situated on the E side of a slight col with slightly higher ground c. 700m to the W and a low hill c. 600m to the E. It was excavated (E4174) by C. Hardy when two ring-ditches, 13 cremation pits, and two possible structures came to light. An earlier Beaker phase may be represented and a resistivity survey identified at least two ring-ditches outside the road-take and the excavated area.
This barrow is a circular area (int. diam. 3.1m; ext. diam. 6.3m) defined by a V-shaped ditch (Wth 1.55m; D 0.9m), but half of it remains unexcavated outside the road-take to the W. The ring-ditch (WX026-089001-) is c. 10m to the S and the cremations pits (WX026-089003-) are c. 7m to the E. (Hardy 2012, 12; 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29 November, 2013

References

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 Unpublished.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).

Hardy, C. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford, E4174, Knockrathkyle 1. Stage (III) Post-excavation Assessment Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).

Hardy, C. 2013 Knockrathkyle 1. Ring-ditches, cremation pits, stake-holes, boundary ditches. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 249-50, No. 778. Dublin. Wordwell.