Charcoal-making site

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a SW-facing slope c. 350m SW of a col between Camlin Hill c. 400m NW of the col and an E-W spur of Ballylane Hill that rises to the E of the col. Centre-line testing (E4067) in advance of the N25 New Ross bypass identified an oval charcoal-production pit (dims. 1.49m NE-SW; 0.96m N-S; max. D 0.07m) that had a fill of reddish-brown sandy clay with charcoal inclusions. This pit produced a calibrated C14 date of AD 1020-1160 (Eogan and Kelly 2016, 234). The site was set aside for resolution as Camlin 8, Area A (Doyle et al. 2010, 35) when further excavation (E4113) identified a second pit (dims 0.72m x 0.64m; D 0.18m) that is probably contemporary but which contained no traces of charcoal (Clark and Hackett 2010, 8; Hackett 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 September, 2013

References

Eogan, J. and Kelly, B. 2016. 'New Roads to Medieval Wexford.' in I. Doyle, and B. Browne Medieval Wexford: essays in memory of Billy Colfer, 211-40. Dublin, Four Courts Press

Clark, L. and Hackett, L. 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 Camlin 8 in the townland of Camlin, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology.

Hackett, L. 2013 Camlin 8. Charcoal-production pit. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 231, No. 729. Dublin. Wordwell.

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 Test excavation report, under Ministerial Directions Number A52 (E4067) Unpublished report.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.