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First identified by Ian Russell (2008, 361) of Archaeological Consultancy Services in centre-line testing (05E0763) of Alternate Route 2a of the Waterford City bypass in testing area 32. Situated on a gentle W-facing slope, it was fully excavated (E3439) by Robert O'Hara of ACS as Woodstown 8 when eight truncated pits, some containing what may be fragments of an Early Bronze Age vase urn, were recorded in association with a hearth. (O'Hara 2010a; O'Hara and Ginn 2011e).
O'Hara, A. (2010a) Woodstown 8. Possible prehistoric structure. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 526, No. 1863. Wordwell. Dublin.
Russell, I. (2008) Various townlands. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 361, No. 1481. Wordwell. Dublin.
O’Hara, R. and V. Ginn (2011e) Woodstown 8, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 73-5. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
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