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House — Iron Age in Baysrath (kells By.)

House — Iron Age
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Excavated in 2006-7 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Road Improvement Scheme. Excavation licence no. 2517, AR054, Area E. One of a cluster of monuments found in close proximity to each other in an area c. 1.8ha with dates ranging from the Late Neolithic to the early medieval period. Two overlapping circular ring-slot trenches (diam. c. 7m) very similar in form to the houses in the NE segment of an Iron Age palisaded enclosure (KK031-076----) to the S and interpreted as being contemporary. Another house (KK031-079----) lay c. 30 to the W. (Channing 2009, 255-6, no. 1003; 2010a, 234, no. 881; 2010b) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 September 2013

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