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Pit-burial

Mersheen, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pit-burial, Mersheen, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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 Unpublished report, Kilkenny Archaeology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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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