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Enclosure in Woodlands East

Enclosure
Enclosure in Woodlands East
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Enclosure in Woodlands East, County Kildare, Ireland, is an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by three fosses, cut east-west by a modern field boundary. Dr. Gillian Barrett identified it during a 1991 aerial photographic survey, yet quarrying destroyed it between 2000 and 2005. Its inner ditch continued north into adjacent arable land, now swallowed by the quarry. What remained was a shadow in soil and memory, not a shape anyone could walk beside.
Located due south of two other enclosures (KD038-067---- and KD038-069----) and a ring-ditch (KD038-068----), all destroyed by quarrying between 2000 and 2005. All identified during an aerial photographic survey by Dr. Gillian Barrett in 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91.DX.38) shows the cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by three fosses. Cut E-W by a modern field boundary, the inner ditch continues as a cropmark into the adjacent arable field to the N on the aerial photograph, which now falls within the apparent limits of the quarry. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

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