County: Wexford Site name: GOREY CORPORATION LANDS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Raghnall Ó Floinn, National Museum of Ireland
Site type: Urn burial
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 715125m, N 659142m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.671211, -6.297746
Portions of an Encrusted Urn and cremated bone were discovered by local schoolboys exposed in the face of a disused gravel pit on the outskirts of Gorey.
The urn measured some 0.3m in diameter and 0.4m in height. Excavation in the immediate vicinity of the find revealed traces of a pit some 0.5m in maximum width, the floor of the pit being 0.35m below the present surface (the topsoil had been removed some years previously). The floor of the pit contained sherds in situ of the rim of a Vase Urn with incised lattice decoration. The Vase Urn appeared to have been inverted in the pit. It is not clear whether the Encrusted Urn (which was also inverted over a deposit of cremated bone, according to the finders) was buried in the same pit or in a separate pit nearby.
