Charcoal-making site

The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the bottom of a N-facing slope just above the junction with the flood-plain of the N-S River Barrow/Nore, which is running E-W c. 600m to the N. Centre-line testing (E4067) in advance of the N25 New Ross by-pass identified a charcoal-making pit (dims 1.95m ENE-WSW; 1.35m NNW-SSE; D 0.2m) filled with a dark brown silty clay dug into oxidised subsoil (Doyle et al. 2010, 29). It was set aside for resolution as Landscape 1 and completely excavated (E4107) when a small pit (dims 0.84m x 0.5m; D 0.08-0.14m) was found in the vicinity. No artefacts were recovered. (Clark and Hession 2010; Hession 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 September, 2013

References

Doyle, L., Hackett, L., Hession, J., Marshall, M. Yates, D. and Bolger, T. 2010 N25 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenny to Knockroe, Co.Wexford. Archaeological services contract, Stage (1) – standard test excavation, wetland test excavation, townland boundary survey and architectural/built heritage survey. Test excavation report, under Ministerial Directions Number A52 (E4067) Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Hession, J. 2013 Landscape 1. Charcoal-production pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 251, No. 782. Dublin. Wordwell.

Clark, L. and Hession, J. 2010 N25 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenney to Knockroe, Co. Wexford. Archaeological Services Contract, Stage (iii) – excavation, post-excavation assessment report for Landscape 1 in the townland of Landscape, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology.