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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Plan showing main zones and location of section drawings A-A1 and B-B1.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Plan showing locations of sections.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Plan of doorway showing level-raising dump layer on right and paved and cobbled areas on left, abd location of sections K-K3, H-H1, I-I1 and J-J1.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Paved and cobbled areas F981 and F945. Looking south.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Looking from the doorway towards the Middle Enclosure.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Elevation of the north entrance showing the inner jambs and Threshold 2 fully excavated.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Elevation of the inner threshold (Threshold 3). Possibly a single large boulder originally, the threshold helped to keep the revetted sides of the passage in place.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Earliest features.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Detailed plan of the north entrance passage showing the paved (F981) and cobbled (F945) areas. Blue lines mark the cut made through the gravel.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Cutting 9 after removal of sod. Looking west.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Close up detail of revetment at west side of path. The ‘white’ triangular stone has been removed from beside the scale rod exposing the vertical cut in the gravel behind.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Burial remains in entrance passage. Looking west. Scale rod 1m.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa: the gravels bottoming out to shattered bedrock.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa,entrance passage. Burial placed against the innermost threshhold of the north entrance.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. The northern part of the foundation trench of Structure 9.1. Posthole 959.5 with periwinkles in situ. On the left of the blackboard is the recut later posthole 943.4. Looking west.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. Structure 9.1. a) Posthole locations, b) posthole sections.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. Structure 9.1.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. Structure 9.1 postholes in eastern sector of foundation trench.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. Structure 9.1 being excavated. The rubble fill of postholes 943.4 and 963.3 is in situ and the rubble covered paved path (970) is visible on right. Looking south.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa, western zone. Structure 9.1 and postholes (943.4 and 963.3) fully excavated. The unexcavated pit (974) is visible at lower right. Looking south.
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