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Ring-ditch in Ask

Ring-ditch

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This site was excavated (E3502) during 2005 as a part of a complex area know as Site 42-44 of the N11 Gorey to Arklow link. An extensive area (dims. 250m N-S 48-60m E-W) across the road-take was excavated, but geophysical survey indicates that activity extended outside this to the E, W and SW. Situated on the lower NW-facing slope of Ask Hill. This is ring-ditdh I in area A, a circular area (int. diam. 7m; ext. diam. 8-9m) defined by a penannular ditch (Wth 0.6-0.9m; D 0.25) with openings at W (Wth 3.6m) and N (Wth 1.85m). The ditch contained 169 quartz and flint artefacts, small quantites of cremated bone, and a single sherd of pottery. The ditch at E cuts a cremation pit of structure (WX007-076005-) and marked it with a post, indicating that it post-dates it. (Stevens 2008a, 392; 2008, 25-6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March, 2012

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