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Ring-ditch in Redcow

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Situated in a low-lying landscape with a small NW-SE canalised stream or drain c. 200m to the NE. A concentration of eight ring-ditches, probably representing barrows, was recorded in July 2018 using a drone-mounted camera. They are in a limited area of about 10 acres (c. 4 ha) but are fairly dispersed, being c. 20-50m from their nearest neighbour. This is a small circular area (int. diam. c. 4m) defined by a fosse feature which may have an entrance feature at SW. See the attaché image courtesy of Mathew Kelly.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LH004-156002

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  • Eric Jones, commons.wikimedia.org
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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