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 completely excavated (00E0476) subsequently. It is situated on a fairly level landscape. This is an area (dims. c. 8m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW) with a number of deposits and some features including a hearth. Some shallow pits contained charcoal in their fills, probably from a hearth and were sealed by re-deposited subsoil that may have formed a work-surface. This was overlaid by layers of charcoal-rich clays with medieval ceramics and further more sterile clays to renew the surface more than once. A shallow pit (diam. 1.4m) 5m to the NE with charcoal in its upper fill is interpreted as a hearth, with a collection of stake-holes in its vicinity. (Noonan 2002; Noonan and Johnston 2006)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 7 November, 2012

References

Noonan, D. and Johnston, P. 2006 Final excavation report, N25 Harristown to Rathsillagh realignment, Bricketstown, Co. Wexford. Kiln, field system, hearth, work surface. Licence No. 00E0476. Unpublished report, Eachtra Archaeological Projects.

Noonan, D. 2002 Bricketstown. Corn-drying kiln and field system. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 350, No. 1041. Bray, Wordwell.

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