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Kiln — corn-drying in Piercetown (dunboyne By.)

Kiln — corn-drying
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Two cereal-drying kilns are within the annexe attached to the S of Site 1 that was excavated (17E0080) by Deirdre Murphy (excavations.ie 2018:805), and a third is cut into its defining ditch at S. This kiln (dims 6.4m E-W; 3.05m N-S; D 0.58m) is the most northerly of the three and was keyhole shaped originally but two recuts have misshapen it. It has the firing chamber at W and five fills of silty clays, only one of which has a charcoal content. (Murphy 2019, P 16-18, 29) See the attached plan from Murphy (2019, fig. 7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 November 2021

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