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This is the record for the pit excavated by Goorik Dehaene (E3253) on the N11 road improvement scheme. The pit comprised a rounded cut (diameter 0.6m by 0.16m deep) with a single burnt-spread fill. (Dehaene 2009s) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 17 January 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI031-087

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