Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Nethertown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nethertown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17585, -6.36072
- SMR number
- WX053-096----
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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 a slight E-facing slope. Archaeological monitoring (02E0160) on a windfarm identified archaeological features on the base of turbine 7 (Purcell 2002, 12), which was fully excavated (02E0434). It consisted of a single pit (dims 1.9m N-S; 1.63m E-W; D 0.35m). There were two areas of burning in the fill, and pottery that has been identified as Neolithic Sandhills ware was recovered, along with flint debitage. (Purcell 2002a, 8-10)
References
Purcell, J. 2002 Archaeological monitoring on a windfarm at Carnsore Point, County Wexford. Licence No. 02E0160. Unpublished report, Archaeological Services Unit, Cork
Purcell, J. 2002a Archaeological excavation at St. Vogue's, Carnsore Point, County Wexford. Licence No. 02E0434. Unpublished report. Archaeological Services Unit, Cork.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.