County: Wexford Site name: HARRISTOWN BIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0424
Author: Michael Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 692230m, N 622950m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.350379, -6.646192
Eachtra Archaeological Projects excavated this as part of a programme of monitoring and testing for Wexford County Council (see Excavations 2000, No. 1068 for scope of works). The site was found during pre-development test-trenching. This exposed a line of stake-holes and two small, shallow pits with sherds of prehistoric pottery deposited in it. The stake-holes were c. 0.8m apart and orientated north-west to south-east. They extended in a slightly arced line for c. 4m. The three pits were c. 2m to the south-west of the stake-holes. All were under 0.1m in depth, and two of them had pottery. Further analysis of the pottery and soil samples is awaited, but initial analysis suggests a similar date to No. 1061, Excavations 2000, which was only 200m away.
Riveroaks, Riverstown, Birr, Co. Offaly
