Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Mersheen, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mersheen
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicaetd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23324, -6.93751
- SMR number
- WX044-051----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on top of a broad hill with the enclosure (WX044-049-----) c. 100m to the SW. A small subcircular pit (dims 0.33m x 0.28m; D 0.1m) with two clay fills, both with cremated human bone, was excavated in a NE-SW archaeological test-trench (12E0159) (Ó Drisceoil 2012b). A C14 determination of 1940-1770 cal. BC was recorded for the cremated bone. See this web-page accessed on 15/034/2016: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023611/
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 March, 2016
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2012b Preliminary archaeological excavation report. Mersheen Townland, County Wexford. Licence No. 12E0159. Unpublished report, Kilkenny Archaeology
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.