A total of seven phases were identified on site. The first was identified as a Neolithic metalled surface which may represent a working or walking surface. This had been partially cut by a foundation trench for a possible sub-circular shaped Neolithic structure. The infant burial
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This site was uncovered in the townland of Ballynacarriga during advanced testing for the main line of the N25 Youghal Bypass route at the intersection with the new Ballynacarriga Access Road. The site is an enclosed settlement of Early Christian period date. It was situated on
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A total of twenty-eight areas for Archaeological Resolution (AR?s) were identified during advance stripping and monitoring of groundworks for the N25 Youghal Bypass scheme. The sites were distributed all along the route and consisted of small archaeological features such as isola
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A poorly-preserved oval-shaped corn-drying kiln (AR 33) was uncovered in the townland of Ballynacarriga during monitoring of ground works for the Ballynacarriga Access Road at Chainage 427 of that line. A large oval area of oxidization measuring 4.1m north?south by 2m east?wes
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This report is concerned with the archaeological excavation of ‘miscellaneous’ archaeological remains, which had previously been uncovered during Centreline Testing, Morett, County Laois (archaeological licence 03E0128) [refer figures 1-3]. The excavation of these ‘miscellaneous’
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Resolution excavations were undertaken at Marett Townland, County Laois, of features identified by archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping in advance of the M7 Heath-Mayfield Motorway Scheme. The excavation was carried out on behalf of Kildare County Council, National Road
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Archaeological Development Services Ltd., having been commissioned by Louth County Council, the Roads Service NI (Department for Regional Development) and the National Roads Authority carried out archaeological assessment along the route of the proposed A1/N1 Newry-Dundalk Road T
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Resolution excavation was undertaken at Morett 15, Morett Townland, County Laois, of features identified by the archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping in advance of the Heath-Mayfield Motorway Scheme. The excavation was carried out on behalf of Kildare County Council unde
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The site was exposed between chainages 18700 and 18600 in the eastern portion of the proposed motorway in the townland of Shallon. Four pottery sherds were recovered from the topsoil, two post-medieval earthenware sherds (01E0195:001:3-4_ and two of Late Medieval date (01E0195:00
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This volume presents the archaeological history of the achievements of the passage tomb builders who constructed and used the Great Mound (Tomb 1) at Knowth over a period of at least three centuries, c. 3200–2900 BC. It explores tomb morphology, the method of construction of Tomb
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This volume examines the archaeology of Knowth during the first and second millennia AD, and presents the findings relating to the use of the site from the Late Iron Age to the modern era. The huge array of finds excavated at Knowth associated with the period under consideratio
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This volume evaluates the historical role of Knowth and wider Brugh na Bóinne. It explores the history, settlement and society of Knowth and the wider Brugh na Bóinne district - from the emergence of political power in the Boyne Valley to the beginning of the twenty-first century
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