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2010:703 - BALLYGULLEN (1), Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford

Site name: BALLYGULLEN (1)

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: E004190

Author: Bruce Sutton, for TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 710337m, N 653820m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.624393, -6.370288

Ballygullen 1 was located on the proposed M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. The site was located in a dry field that slopes from the north-west to the south-east.

The excavation has revealed evidence of three post-holes and one stake-hole that did not seem to form a discernible pattern. The archaeological features were found centrally within the CPO and there is no evidence for the site continuing outside the road-take.

One of the post-holes yielded a flint find. The post-hole, which was circular in plan, measured 0.3m in diameter and 0.09m deep and contained a single soft mid-brown sandy charcoal-flecked fill.

Four other flint artifacts were recovered from the topsoil. A post-medieval pottery fragment, identified as a glazed red earthenware body sherd (17th–20th century), was recovered from the fill of a modern ditch.


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