Pit-burial in Askunshin

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and resolved (E4347) by A. Mulcahy as Askunshin 3 during the testing phase (Hardy et al. 2010, 121-2). It is located in a slight col between a low hill c. 860m to the NNW and a slight rise c. 250m to the SSE. It proved to be a single pit (dims 0.49m x 0.42m; D 0.08m) filled with two deposits, both containing burnt bone. The bone proved to be animal rather than human, but a sample from the lower fill produced a C14 determination of Cal. BC 1403-1262. The pits (WX019-035----) are c. 260m to the NE. (Mulcahy 2012; 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

Pit-burial in Askunshin is a medieval burial site, significant for its context within early Christian or Viking-era funerary practices in the region.