What is recorded here
On a SSW-facing storm beach. Storms in 2013/14 revealed shale flakes and axe roughouts in a clay layer beneath the sand at high tide level. Three trenches and one test trench were excavated in the area in 2015 following a monitoring and survey programme (Licence No. 15E0145). Trench 1 produced a large amount of shale…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL008A010
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Bob Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gareth James, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Valfex, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
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