2002:1912 - FETHARD: Sluice Lane, Wexford

Testing of a site at Sluice Lane, Fethard, was undertaken on 3 July 2002. Three trenches were excavated, representing an area of 37m2. No features of a definite archaeological nature were revealed. A subsoil-cut feature in Trench 2 toward the north-eastern corner of the site may be of antiquity. It may also, however, belong to a phase of activity indicated by upstanding stone walls that bounded the site. It extended from 0.9m to 1.5m below present ground level. Its full width, which exceeded 1.7m north–south, could not be established in the confines of the trench. It appeared to run across the trench in a roughly east–west direction and may be the remains of a linear feature or large pit with a steeply sloping southern edge and relatively flat base. It contained two deposits. The upper fill was a light grey clay with infrequent inclusions of 19th- and early 20th-century material. The lower fill was a dark brown/black organic silt containing frequent inclusions of butchered bone and seashell.

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