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Westmeath<br />

knife, a crutch-head ringed pin, a boat fragment, a bone pin and a wooden tub. It is also<br />

possible that a bronze hanging lamp was lost outside the palisade at this stage.<br />

Phase5 – Site abandonment (late eleventh-century AD)<br />

Phase 5 sees the abandonment of the crannog, with a dark humus developing over the late<br />

hearths. <strong>The</strong>re was a layer of gravel over this, which was succeeded by a thick superficial<br />

layer. <strong>The</strong>re was some transitory activity on the site in the late middle ages, with a<br />

thirteenth-century axe-head deposited outside the crannog near the quay.<br />

References:<br />

Hencken, H. O’N. 1933. A gaming board of the Viking Age. Acta Archaeologica, 4, 85–104.<br />

Hencken, H. O’N. 1936. Ballinderry crannóg no. 1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy<br />

Section C, 43C, 103–239.<br />

Johnson, R. 1999. Ballinderry crannóg No. 1: a reinterpretation. Proceedings of the Royal<br />

Irish Academy Section C, 99C, 23–71.<br />

Lynn, C. J. 1985-6. Lagore, County Meath and Ballinderry No. I, County Westmeath crannógs:<br />

some possible structural reinterpretations. Journal of Irish Archaeology, 3, 69–73.<br />

Newman, C. 1986. <strong>The</strong> archaeology of Ballinderry Lough. Unpublished MA thesis, NUI.<br />

O’Sullivan, A. 2003. <strong>The</strong> Harvard Archaeological Mission and the politics of the Irish Free<br />

State. Archaeology Ireland, 63, 20–3.<br />

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