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barrel-padlock and an anvil; a bone spindle-whorl; a glass stud and bracelet; a shale bracelet;<br />

two stone lamps, and one pair <strong>of</strong> quernstones. Finds from both the primary and secondary<br />

phases included bronze pins; iron knives; iron spear-heads; iron shears; awls; pins; ladles;<br />

hooks; rings; nails; eight barrel-padlock keys; iron vessel ‘escutcheons’; bone pins; glass<br />

beads; glass vessel fragments; stone pendants; stone plaques; stone discs and a large<br />

quantity <strong>of</strong> stone spindle-whorls; whet and hone-stones, and flint artefacts.<br />

Evidence for ironworking was well attested in both the primary and secondary occupation<br />

phases and finds recovered included crucible fragments, furnace bottoms, tuyère fragments,<br />

ore and a considerable quantity <strong>of</strong> slag. A bowl-shaped furnace was excavated beyond the<br />

north-west corner <strong>of</strong> House I from Period I while six pit-furnaces belonged to the Period II<br />

occupation. A small blob <strong>of</strong> glass was recovered beside the bowl-shaped furnace from Period<br />

I and could ‘represent a drop <strong>of</strong> molten glass from the artificer’s tool’ suggesting that this<br />

structure was also possibly used for glass-working. Another blob <strong>of</strong> glass was recovered from<br />

a secondary occupation context in the centre <strong>of</strong> the interior and may suggest further<br />

evidence for this activity.<br />

Nine stone trial pieces were recovered from the site, all except one, from the secondary<br />

occupation phase, and contained a variety <strong>of</strong> designs including a spiral pattern, geometrical<br />

interlacements, animal or bird ornament and an interlaced anthropomorph.<br />

<strong>The</strong> pottery assemblage recovered in both occupation phases consisted entirely <strong>of</strong> imported E<br />

ware, as well as one sherd <strong>of</strong> Red Slip Ware (A ware). <strong>The</strong> recovery <strong>of</strong> pottery sherd<br />

fragments belonging to the same vessel in both Period I and II contexts indicates that there<br />

was no significant time differences in both occupation phases.<br />

<strong>The</strong> finds from Garryduff I, particularly the decorated bird ornament from the primary phase<br />

and the E ware assemblage indicate that the enclosure was occupied in two roughly<br />

contemporary occupation phases around the late-sixth/seventh century. <strong>The</strong> site appears to<br />

be possibly slightly later than Garranes where E ware was absent, though perhaps<br />

contemporary with Ballycatteen fort where Red Slip Ware and Late Roman Amphora were<br />

absent, though E ware was also recovered.<br />

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