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Close to SE end of a boulder clay cliff adjoining the Silver Strand, near Bearna. Exposed in section as a band of black material (L 4.6m, T c. 0.2m). It contains a large number of periwinkle shells with burnt stone and charcoal also in evidence. A much more extensive deposit, noted here by Keary (1965, 110-11) in the early 1960s, consisted mainly of oysters, but he considered that it might be of natural origin. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA093-007

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