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Cork<br />

bracelet, a segmented bead of blue glass and a bronze ring. A possible iron vessel<br />

escutcheon and a bronze-coated iron bell were two other remarkable finds.<br />

Small-scale ironworking was evident by the presence of one almost complete furnace bottom<br />

and fragments of eight others, as well as residues of light glassy slag. Some pieces of rock<br />

limonite, one of which appeared to have been roasted, were also suggestive of that the local<br />

limonite was being used as an ore. No significant quantity of animal bones, or evidence for<br />

arable farming (e.g. quernstones), were recovered during the excavation at the site.<br />

Fig. 77: Plan of Oldcourt, Co. Cork (after Murphy & O’Cuileanain 1961, fig. 2).<br />

References:<br />

Murphy, T. F. & O’Cuileanain, C. 1961. A ringfort at Oldcourt, Co. Cork. Journal of the Cork<br />

Historical and Archaeological Society, 66, 79–92.<br />

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