County: Wexford Site name: Lacken 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E004124
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Post-medieval field-clearance activities
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 676596m, N 628194m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.399910, -6.874420
Excavations at Lacken 2 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 two pits and a spread related to post-medieval field-clearance activities. The pits were both subcircular in plan and measured 1–1.8m in length, 0.8–1.45m in width and 0.45m in depth. Their fills contained occasional charcoal with a square-headed iron nail and a clay-pipe bowl recovered from one.
The charcoal-rich deposit measured 2.15m long (north-west/south-east) by 1.1m wide by 0.04m deep and was subrectangular in plan. It contained a fragment of clay-pipe stem within its soil matrix.
