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A stone flagged path linked the northwest entrance of the building with the stone rampart. It
overlay part of a stone-lined drain which extended 4.4m east of the eastern door jamb of the
building to the cliff-face to the southwest. A triangular area of stone cobbling of recent date
was excavated to the east of the building and sealed a nineteenth century brass button. Finds
from the fort’s interior included two small honing-stones.
The finds at Dunbeg were very few in number and comprised a small collection of possible
early medieval objects mentioned above as well as a number of post-medieval artefactsthirteen
sherds of post-medieval pottery, brass button, brass medal of the Catholic Total
Abstinence League and clay pipe fragments- found mostly in the topsoil in the forts interior.
The animal bone- sheep/goats, pig and cattle as well as deer and birds- was fragmentary and
recovered mostly from within the occupation layers inside the building.
Fig. 161: Plan of Dunbeg promontory fort, Co. Kerry (after Barry 1981, 301).
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