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Kerry<br />

A stone flagged path linked the northwest entrance <strong>of</strong> the building with the stone rampart. It<br />

overlay part <strong>of</strong> a stone-lined drain which extended 4.4m east <strong>of</strong> the eastern door jamb <strong>of</strong> the<br />

building to the cliff-face to the southwest. A triangular area <strong>of</strong> stone cobbling <strong>of</strong> recent date<br />

was excavated to the east <strong>of</strong> the building and sealed a nineteenth century brass button. Finds<br />

from the fort’s interior included two small honing-stones.<br />

<strong>The</strong> finds at Dunbeg were very few in number and comprised a small collection <strong>of</strong> possible<br />

early medieval objects mentioned above as well as a number <strong>of</strong> post-medieval artefactsthirteen<br />

sherds <strong>of</strong> post-medieval pottery, brass button, brass medal <strong>of</strong> the Catholic Total<br />

Abstinence League and clay pipe fragments- found mostly in the topsoil in the forts interior.<br />

<strong>The</strong> animal bone- sheep/goats, pig and cattle as well as deer and birds- was fragmentary and<br />

recovered mostly from within the occupation layers inside the building.<br />

Fig. 176: Plan <strong>of</strong> Dunbeg promontory fort, Co. Kerry (after Barry 1981, 301).<br />

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