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Ring-ditch in Laracor

Ring-ditch

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On a slight ridge in Laracor, two curved ditches spiralled around a hidden centre, one bearing the aligned bodies of the dead. The outer ditch held two people buried north to south, perhaps placed there because the line felt right or because the land remembered them. The inner ditch ran wider and deeper, as if marking the boundary of a living space rather than a grave. Together they suggest a small world where the living and dead shared the same ridge, separated only by a few metres of earth.
Situated on top of a slight ridge and just SE of rath (ME036-043001-). Evidence of a possible a double ring-ditch was recovered in test excavation (04E0987) in the form of two arcs of fosses, the inner curved fosse (L 6m; Wth 1.75m; D 0.3m) separated by c. 3-4m from an outer curved fosse (L 7m; Wth 1m; D 0.2m) that had two inhumations on its line that were oriented N-S. (Breen 2007, 2010, 14-16, 44) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 November, 2017

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