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Discovered during road construction (Excavation Licence No. 94E0075). Heavily truncated before excavation commenced. Remains consisted of two ditches (avg. Wth 6.5m; avg. D 3.5m) running at right angles across the road-take. Artefacts recovered included Souterrain ware pottery, a polished stone axe, a bone comb and flint fragments. A geophysical survey indicated that the ditches formed part of a rectangular enclosure. A substantial portion of the site lay undisturbed on either side of the road. (Channing 1995, 61) Reference: Channing, J. 1995 Dowdallshill. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 61 (No. 169). Bray. Wordwell. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 30 November 2011

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Enclosure in Dowdallshill

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