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Meath<br />

Radiocarbon Dates:<br />

(PJ Reimer, MGL Baillie, E Bard, A Bayliss, JW Beck, C Bertrand, PG Blackwell, CE Buck, G Burr, KB Cutler, PE Damon,<br />

RL Edwards, RG Fairbanks, M Friedrich, TP Guilderson, KA Hughen, B Kromer, FG McCormac, S Manning, C Bronk<br />

Ramsey, RW Reimer, S Remmele, JR Southon, M Stuiver, S Talamo, FW Taylor, J van der Plicht, and CE<br />

Weyhenmeyer (2004), Radiocarbon 46:1029-1058).<br />

Sample No. Context<br />

14 C Date Cal. 2 Σ<br />

GRN-15370 Burial 7 1920±60 BP 42 B.C. - A.D. 231<br />

GRN-15371 Burial 8 1960±30 BP 39 B.C. - A.D. 87;<br />

A.D. 104-121<br />

GRN-15372 Burial 10 2095±20 BP 175-50 B.C.<br />

GRA-13595 Burial 21 1921±50 BP 38-27 B.C.;<br />

25-9 B.C.;<br />

3 B.C. - A.D. 218<br />

GRN-15384 Burial 11/12 1355±20 BP A.D. 646-682<br />

GRN-1471 Burial 14 1270±25 BP A.D. 668-779;<br />

A.D. 794-801<br />

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Eogan, G. 1968. Excavations at Knowth, Co. Meath, 1962-1965. Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Royal<br />

Irish Academy Section C, 66C, 299–382.<br />

Eogan, G. 1974. Report on the excavation <strong>of</strong> some passage graves, unprotected inhumation<br />

burials and a settlement site at Knowth. Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Royal Irish Academy Section C,<br />

74C, 11112.<br />

Eogan, G. 1977. <strong>The</strong> Iron Age – early Christian settlement at Knowth, Co. Meath, Ireland. V.<br />

Markotic (ed.) Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean: Studies Presented in Honour <strong>of</strong> Hugh<br />

Hencken, 69–76. Wiltshire. Aris and Philips.<br />

McCormick, F. & Murray, E. 2007. Knowth and the Zooarchaeology <strong>of</strong> Early Christian Ireland.<br />

Excavations at Knowth 3. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.<br />

O’Brien, E. Forthcoming. Pagan or Christian? Burial in Ireland during the 5 th to 8 th centuries<br />

A.D., in N. Edwards (ed.) <strong>The</strong> Archaeology <strong>of</strong> the Early Medieval Celtic Churches. Society for<br />

Medieval Archaeology Monograph.<br />

553

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