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Excavation - miscellaneous

Courtlands East, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Courtlands East, 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
Courtlands East
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24957, -6.50682
SMR number
WX047-157----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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 a rise in a gently undulating landscape. Archaeological testing (00E0630) excavated a small hearth (dims 0.72m x 0.5m; D 0.14m) and a small pit (dims 0.34m x 0.31m; D 015m) c. 4m distant. The pit and surrounding area produced pottery of a Neolithic character. (Purcell 2000, 2002)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 October, 2013

References

Purcell, A. 2002 Courtlands Great. Neolithic. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 354, No. 1052. Bray. Wordwell.

Purcell, A. 2000 Archaeological monitoring, Courtlands East, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 00E0630. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co.

Nearby in the register

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

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