County: Wexford Site name: Bricketstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0172
Author: Red Tobin, RedArc Ltd, 35 Brook Meadow, Avoca, Co Wicklow.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 691672m, N 619939m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.323413, -6.655197
The site is located on the townland of Bricketstown, Taghmon, Co. Wexford, within a field usually cultivated for cereal crops. The field lies below the crest of a hill on a gradual south-west-facing slope. The development site lies north and north-west of an WX036–023, a moated site. The site has been ploughed out over the years and no visual trace of the monument survives above ground. The area where it was sited remains quite wet, suggesting the presence of a localised water source which would have served to flood the moat of the enclosure.
A series of ten trenches were excavated using a tracked excavator with a 2m toothless ditching bucket. All trenches were excavated to natural and produced no features or materials of an archaeological nature.
