County: Waterford Site name: SITE 7A, WOODSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0413
Author: Ian Russell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 655887m, N 612084m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.257632, -7.181382
Testing was carried out on behalf of Waterford City Council in advance of the construction of the new N25 Waterford bypass. A number of trenches were excavated by machine within the western link between Chainages 180 and 340. The sod and topsoil measured an average of 0.3m in thickness and lay above the natural orange clay and stone. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed.
Four sections were also excavated through the field banks to the north and west. These were found to have been constructed from three to four layers of orange/brown coarse clays and were not found to be archaeological in nature.
