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Meath<br />

belt buckles, bone combs and jet bracelets. Functional items were represented by iron knives,<br />

needles, seven quern stone fragments, grindstones, a horse bridle and flint scrapers. Animal<br />

bone was uncovered from a wide variety of contexts including house floors, souterrains,<br />

occupational layers, and from within the hearths.<br />

Contact with Scandinavian Dublin was evident by the presence of weighing scales and an<br />

eleventh-century Hiberno-Scandinavian bracelet. <strong>The</strong> rounded corners on the rectangular<br />

houses at Knowth also indicate Scandinavian building-style influences. <strong>The</strong> final early<br />

medieval phase ended sometime during the eleventh century. Annalistic references indicate<br />

that Knowth was granted to the Cistercian Abbey during the middle twelfth century but no<br />

archaeological evidence for this was uncovered. Modification of the south-eastern side of the<br />

mound occurred during the late-twelfth century as two stone-lined ditches and a bastion were<br />

constructed by the Anglo-Normans.<br />

Fig. 241: Plan of early medieval phases at Knowth, Co. Meath (after McCormick & Murray<br />

2007, 5).<br />

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