{"id":1542,"date":"2016-05-21T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2018-01-26T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:12:04","slug":"duncannon-fort-co-wexford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/2016\/05\/21\/duncannon-fort-co-wexford\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncannon Fort, Co. Wexford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project:<\/strong>\u00a0Duncanon Fort, Co. Wexford<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Duncannon, Co. Wexford<\/p>\n

Year:<\/strong> 2016<\/p>\n

Client:<\/strong>\u00a0Stafford-McLoughlin Archaeology<\/p>\n

Funding:<\/strong> County Kildare Archaeological Society<\/a> and the Kildare County Council<\/a> Community Heritage Grant Scheme.<\/p>\n

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Aim:\u00a0<\/strong>Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics were commissioned by Ms. C. McLoughlin of Stafford\u00a0McLoughlin Archaeology<\/a> on behalf of Wexford County\u00a0Council to execute a geophysical survey in\u00a0land adjacent to the Duncannon Bastion Fort as part\u00a0of a conservation plan being carried with\u00a0assistance from the Heritage Council, within the townland of Duncannon, Duncannon Village,\u00a0County Wexford. The fort contains a church and a castle and it is believed that it may originally have been the site of a promontory fort owing to the derivation of the name meaning ‘Conan’s Fort’. Our main objectives were to determine the presence or absence of buildings and possibly grave plots associated with Duncannon Fort which are reputed to lie within the survey area and to investigate for any possible metallic artefacts which may be related to the usage of the fort. Earthsound carried out a comprehensive geophysical study of the site which included Magnetometry<\/a>, Earth Resistance<\/a>, Electromagnetic Induction<\/a> and Metal Detection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Outcomes:\u00a0<\/strong>The geophysical surveys have revealed an extensive\u00a0range of potential archaeological\u00a0features which suggest the presence of multi-phase\u00a0occupation. This activity appears to\u00a0be concentrated in the northern field, while the central and southern fields have been\u00a0heavily impacted by later activity such as the construction of a cinder block wall and\u00a0soil deposition.\u00a0Within the northern field a series of parallel and\u00a0interconnecting boundaries have been\u00a0detected. These could relate to agricultural activity or be associated with habitation.\u00a0A number of circular possible enclosures were identified. These are unlikely to be\u00a0contemporary with the fort but may indicate occupation on the site prior to the\u00a0installation of military activity.\u00a0The presence of numerous possible pits and four possible industrial anomalies as well\u00a0as a series of possible structures down the western\u00a0extent of the northern field suggests\u00a0a large amount of habitation activity once existed\u00a0on the outer edge of the fort.\u00a0When the geophysical results are combined with the\u00a0metal detection \u2018hits\u2019 a complicated\u00a0picture emerges suggesting that the fields, as well\u00a0as being used for habitation, may\u00a0have seen warfare or at least the practicing of warfare.<\/p>\n\n

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Project:\u00a0Duncanon Fort, Co. Wexford Location:\u00a0Duncannon, Co. Wexford Year: 2016 Client:\u00a0Stafford-McLoughlin Archaeology Funding: County Kildare Archaeological Society and the Kildare County Council Community Heritage Grant Scheme. Aim:\u00a0Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics were commissioned by Ms. C. McLoughlin of Stafford\u00a0McLoughlin Archaeology on behalf of Wexford County\u00a0Council to execute a geophysical survey in\u00a0land adjacent to the Duncannon Bastion Fort as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99dil-oS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}