County: Waterford Site name: Woodstown 7
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A037; E3439
Author: Robert O’Hara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 655356m, N 610738m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.245582, -7.189378
This site was excavated as part of the pre-construction archaeological mitigation of the N25 Waterford bypass, alternative route. Woodstown 7 consisted of a single pit cut into the subsoil that contained a deposit of cremated human remains. There were no associated finds. It measured 0.4m east–west by 0.35m by 0.13m and also had occasional inclusions of oxidised clay and charcoal. Post-excavation analysis is ongoing. A Bronze Age date is expected and the site may be connected to settlement activity at Woodstown 8 (No. 1863 below, E3438) a short distance away.
