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Dating Navan Fort

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. P. Mallory ,
D. M. Brown  and
M. G. L. Baillie
J. P. Mallory
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
D. M. Brown
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
M. G. L. Baillie
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
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Abstract

Excavations in the summer of 1998 have provided a solution to the problem of dating Northern Ireland's premier archaeological site and opened up new areas for speculation.

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NavanIrelanddendrochronologydatingprehistory

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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 280 , June 1999 , pp. 427 - 431
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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