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Pit-burial
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Located on top of a broad hill with the enclosure (WX044-049-----) c. 100m to the SW. A small subcircular pit (dims 0.33m x 0.28m; D 0.1m) with two clay fills, both with cremated human bone, was excavated in a NE-SW archaeological test-trench (12E0159) (Ó Drisceoil 2012b). A C14 determination of 1940-1770 cal. BC was recorded for the cremated bone. See this web-page accessed on 15/034/2016: http://www.excavations.ie/report/2012/Wexford/0023611/ Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March, 2016

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