Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wexford
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33549, -6.45929
- SMR number
- WX037-032025-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Archaeological testing (96E0141) at the rear of No. 112 South Main St., on the W side of the street and just S of Stonebridge Lane, uncovered the top of a layer of midden material which produced no ceramic or other artefacts. It was immediately beneath a layer that produced 17th century pottery but overlay a sterile grey/black sandy layer that in turn overlay a number of stakes which support a plank (Wth 0.2m; T 3cm), probably one of a line of planks. A SW-NE stone-lined culvert that holds the Bishops Water Pill was adjacent to the SE. Midden (WX037-032024-) is c. 10m to the NE. (Moran 1996, 3; Moran 1997)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 December, 2012
References
Moran, J. 1996 Archaeological site assessment at 112 South Main Street, Wexford. Licence: 96E0141. Unpublished report, Archaeografix.
Moran, J. 1997 South Main Street, Wexford. Medieval/post-medieval. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 115, No. 406. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.