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Westmeath<br />

Towards the end <strong>of</strong> the site’s life history (possibly after a period <strong>of</strong> abandonment as indicated<br />

by the rotten palisade planks), the palisade on the east and southeast was buried under a<br />

large cairn <strong>of</strong> stones and the mound was covered under a sterile layer <strong>of</strong> clay. This<br />

uppermost layer produced late twelfth-century green-glazed pottery sherds, an eleventh to<br />

twelfth-century stirrup ring, a copper-alloy plaque and cast crouching animal (twelfth-century<br />

date) and a fine jet cross <strong>of</strong> eleventh to twelfth century date, found in peat to the west <strong>of</strong> the<br />

site.<br />

References:<br />

Bourke, C. 1985:058. Newtownlow, Co. Westmeath. www.excavations.ie<br />

Bourke, C. 1986:078. Newtownlow, Co. Westmeath. www.excavations.ie<br />

Heery, A. 1998. <strong>The</strong> vegetation history <strong>of</strong> the Irish midlands: Palaeoecological reconstructions<br />

<strong>of</strong> two lake sites adjacent to eskers. Unpublished PhD thesis, Trinity College, University <strong>of</strong><br />

Dublin.<br />

Kenny, M. 1984. A find <strong>of</strong> Anglo-Saxon pennies from Newtownlow. Ríocht na Midhe, 7.3, 37-<br />

43.<br />

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