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Embanked enclosure in Moyne Upper

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What is recorded here

Marked as a rectangular embanked or moated enclosure only on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and located in a low-lying landscape. This is a slightly raised rectangular area (dims. 45m N–S; 40m E–W) defined by a field bank at N, a scarp at W and E and and traces of fosse (L 21m; D 0.7m) at S. A cereal crop had been harvested on it in 1987. Enclsoure (WX020-018----) is immeidately to the S. (Barry 1977, 224, WX 88) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX020-017

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Zairon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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