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Cutting 14, Dún Aonghasa, fully excavated. Looking south.
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Cutting 14, Dún Aonghasa. Close-up view of the foundations of the external (west) face of Wall 1.
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Cutting 14, Dún Aonghasa. Section A-A1 of quarry ditch. B-B1 closer detail of the fill.
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Cutting 14, Dún Aonghasa, quarry ditch. The blue lines mark the limits of the surface rubble. C-C1 (top) shows the foundation course of the external face of Wall 1.
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Cutting 4, Wall 2b, Dún Aonghasa. The outer edge of the quarry ditch is at the lower edge of the picture. Looking west.
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Cutting 4, Dún Aonghasa. The quarry ditch fully excavated. The external face of Wall 1 sits on a thin layer of natural clays. Looking east.
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Cutting 4, Dún Aonghasa, A-A1. Profile of Wall 1, Wall 2b and the intervening quarry ditch (top) with a closer detail of the quarry ditch (bottom). For locations see Figure 6.159.
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Cutting 4, Dún Aonghasa. Plan at surface level of the quarry ditch and showing exposed bedrock in Cutting 4 east.
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Stone chippings abutting the outer face of Wall 1, Dún Aonghasa along the west sector. Looking east.
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Outline of the quarry between Wall 1 (on right) and Wall 2b, Dún Aonghasa. Looking northeast.
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Cutting 21c, Dún Aonghasa. North-facing elevation of chevaux de frise pillars showing propping rubble.
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Cutting 21c, Dún Aonghasa. Chevaux de frise pillars propped by rubble.
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Cutting 21b, Dún Aonghasa in the course of excavation. Looking north.
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Cutting 21b, Dún Aonghasa. Plan (bottom) and section A-A1 (top). Here the chevaux de frise pillars sit on bedrock.
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Cutting 21a, Dún Aonghasa. The chevaux de frise pillars set directly on gravel. Looking north.
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Cutting 21a, Dún Aonghasa. Plan (bottom) and section A-A1 (top) showing chevaux de frise pillars sitting on the gravels.
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Cutting 15, Dún Aonghasa. View of the sondage trench showing the boulder clay underlying the gravels and the shelving bedrock. Looking west.
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Cutting 15, Dún Aonghasa. North-facing elevation of pillars. In the background is the outer edge of the main chevaux de frise.
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Cutting 15, Dún Aonghasa. B-B1 north-facing elevation of pillars and C-C1 section across the sondage trench showing the depth of gravel F1502. (See Figure 6.147 for location).
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Cutting 15, Dún Aonghasa. Plan (bottom) and section (top) of outlying strip of pillars.
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