Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological monitoring (01E0047) of topsoil stripping on a development site c. 750m W of the W shore 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 3 and consisted of a group of eight pits (dims c. 0.25m to 1.5m x 0.7m; D 0.22m) that contained prehistoric pottery and lithic material. A total of 64 sherds of pottery, including some that may be Neolithic, were recovered, and ard-marks were recorded in the vicinity of the pits as well as post-medieval features. The ditch-barrow (WX042-089----) is c. 60m to the S and the ditch-barrow (WX042-090----) is c. 90m to the N. (McLoughlin 2004, 517; McLoughlin 2007, 11-13; McLoughlin et al. 2012, 164).

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 Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.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