Barrow - ditch barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological monitoring (01E0047) of topsoil stripping on a development site c. 750m W of the South Slob of Wexford harbour identified several areas of archaeological activity (Elder 2003), each of which was fully excavated (02E0606). This is site 2 and consisted of a penannular ring-ditch (int. diam. 13.8m; ext. diam. 14.4m) defined by a trench (Wth 0.55-0.6m; D 0.12-0.32m) with an entrance gap (Wth 4.1m) at E. There was a cluster of features at the centre including a cremation burial that produced a C14 date of 390-170 Cal. BC, thirteen dispersed post-holes and stake-holes. A C14 sample from the trench provided a date of 410-10 Cal. BC (McLoughlin 2007, 6-11). The excavated prehistoric pits (WX042-091----) are c. 60m to the N. (McLoughlin 2004; 2007, 6-11; McLoughlin et al. 2012, 161-4)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 May, 2013

References

McLoughlin, C. 2004 Kerloge. Prehistoric. in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 517-8, No. 1915. Bray. Wordwell.

Elder, S. 2003 Kerloge. Prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 403, No. 1305. Bray. Wordwell.

McLoughlin, C. 2007 Final archaeological report, Kerloge, Co. Wexford. Excavation Licence: 02E0606. Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

McLoughlin, C., McClatchie, M., O’Carroll, E., and M. B. O’Hare 2012 12. Excavation of an Iron Age ring-ditch and associated features at Kerlog, Co. Wexford. in Corlett, C. and M. Potterton (eds) Life and Death in Iron Age Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations. 12, 161-73. Dublin, Wordwell