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Ring-ditch in Grange (deece Lower By.)

Ring-ditch

What is recorded here

Situated at the W end of a small E-W ridge overlooking a S-N section of the River Boyne which is c. 260m to the W. Aerial photograph (GB89.M.11) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch defined by three concentric fosses (int. diam. c. 12m; max. ext. diam. c. 40m). The innermost enclosure has an entrance gap (Wth c. 4m) at N and the outermost ring is truncated slightly by a NNE-SSW road bank, which is just to the E. It is also visible on Google Earth (14/07/2018). See the attached aerial view from Google Earth Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009 Amended: 21 August 2019

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