Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

First identified in centre-line testing (00E0379) for the re-alignment of the N25 Wexford town to New Ross road (Elder and Tierney 2002), and fully excavated (00E0424) subsequently. It is located at the crest of NE-facing slope. Eight stake-holes form a line (L c. 4m) aligned NW-SE (Tierney 2002). A sample of charcoal produce a C14 date of cal BC 3120-2900 (Tierney 2006, 6). About 25m to the NW three shallow pits were excavated, and two of them (diam. 0.5-0.7m; D 0.1-0.2m) produced prehistoric pottery while one of them produced a C14 date of cal BC 4040-3800 (Tierney 2006, 31). Archaeological testing (06E0778) on a large triangular site (dims. c. 240m N-S; c. 270m E-W at N) immediately S of the new road produced no archaeological material or features (McLoughlin 2009).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 November, 2012

References

Tierney, M. and Johnston, P. 2006 Final excavation report, Harristown Big. N25 Harristown to Rathsillagh, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 00E0424. Unpublished report, Eachtra Archaeological Projects.

Elder, S. and Tierney, M. 2002 N25 Rathsillatgh to Harristown Little realignment scheme. Prehistoric and medieval. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 358, No. 1068. Bray, Wordwell

Tierney, M. 2002 Harristown Big. Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 355, No. 1060. Bray, Wordwell.

McLoughlin, C. 2009 Harristown. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavatinos 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 558, N0. 2117, Dublin, Wordwell