County: Wexford Site name: Lacken 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E004123
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Five pits and a possible post-hole
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 676780m, N 628986m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.407000, -6.871535
Excavations at Lacken 1 were undertaken on behalf of Wexford County Council as part of the Stage (iii) archaeological services contract prior to the commencement of construction of the N25 New Ross bypass road scheme.
Excavation revealed five pits and a possible post-hole of uncertain function. The pits were circular, oval and sub-oval in plan, measuring between 0.38m and 1.22m in length, 0.38m and 0.75m in width and 0.07m and 0.18m in depth. Occasional charcoal flecking was noted in the fills of two of these features; however, the fills of the others were sterile.
The possible post-hole was circular in plan. It measured 0.28m (north–south) by 0.33m by 0.15m deep and contained an equally sterile silty sand fill.
