A single shallow pit was exposed to the northeast of the possible settlement / ritual site at Kilsharvan 5. The pit was oval in plan and measured 0.98m in length, 0.67m in width and 0.06m in depth. It contained shallow sloped sides becoming more sharply sloped towards the west an
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The site exposed at Kilsharvan 5 was identified as a Middle-Late Bronze Age structure. It was constructed from a number of curved slot trenches (F002,F004,F007, F009, F015, F017). The roof would have been supported by a number of pits/postholes exposed in the centre of the struct
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An oval shaped enclosure was excavated in the townland of Kilsharvan measuring 32.8m in diameter. Over 65% of the enclosure was exposed within the proposed motorway corridor, the remainder lay between the motorway and the Crufty raod to the northeast. No entrance was exposed, but
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The site was exposed near the western edge of the proposed motorway to the south of the enclosure at Kilsharvan 16. It consisted of a sub-oval pit measuring 1.04m in length, 0.93m in width and 0.18m in depth and had been filled with a humic dark-grey-black silty clay containing m
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