Industrial site

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, and completely excavated (00E0473) subsequently. It is situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope with a small N-S stream 10m to the E. Seven pits, one hearth and 25 stake-holes were uncovered. The largest pit (dims 2.4m x 1.98m; D 0.77m) may have functioned as a trough. The hearth (dims 1.7m x 0.74m; D 0.1m) was associated with the stake-holes and deposits with burnt mound material, but the pits contained large quantities of metalworking waste, which probably didn’t derive from the immediate location. Charcoal from one pit produced a C14 date of cal BC 1650-1420. The latest features at the location were parallel ditches (Wth c. 1-1.2m; D c. 0.4m) that may have enclosed a small rectangular field. They were on either side of a field bank and could be relatively recent. (Noonan 2002; Noonan and Johnston 2006)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 5 November, 2012

References

Noonan, D. 2002 Ballyvergin. Burnt mound. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 350, No. 1040. Bray, Wordwell.

Noonan, D. and Johnston, P. 2006 Final excavation report, N25 Harristown to Rathsillagh realignment, Ballyvergin, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 00E0473. Unpublished report, Eachtra Archaeological Projects.