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Excavation

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Two small pits sit close together in County Kerry, filled with burnt, fire-shattered stone. Charcoal from one pit dates to 50BC-110AD. Whatever burned there, it burned hot enough to split rock and leave behind a scar the soil still remembers.
'Two small pits close together and both filled with burnt, fire shattered stone. Charcoal from one of the pits produced a calibrated radiocarbon date of 50BC - 110 AD.' Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008 Date of upload: 22 June 2012

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