County: Wexford Site name: ROSSLARE HARBOUR INTERIM DRAINAGE SCHEME
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0429
Author: Stuart D. Elder for Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 713350m, N 612096m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.248898, -6.339968
Assessment took place along the proposed route of the upgraded sewer network. A total of 61 trial-pits, 30 slit-trenches and 10 boreholes were dug by the contracting geotechnical engineers at various points along the proposed route.
Nothing of archaeological significance was found in any of these areas, and subsequent archaeological test-trenching was undertaken, both at the site of the proposed treatment works and at a low mound in the same field that had already produced waste flint/chert in the initial walk-over assessment. Four test-trenches were opened in all, with one at the treatment works site producing a single struck flint flake, and the one on the mound producing a single sherd of medieval green-glazed pottery. During reinstatement a damaged stone axe was recovered from the topsoil adjacent to the trench on the mound.
Further investigation and/or excavation was therefore recommended.
Clover Hill, Mallow, Co. Cork
