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Armagh<br />

Terryhoogan, Co. Armagh<br />

Early Medieval Unenclosed House.<br />

Grid Ref: J05404430 (30540/34430)<br />

SMR No: N/A<br />

Excavation Licence: AE/04/62<br />

Excavation Duration: April – May 2004.<br />

Site Directors: J. C. McSparron (Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, Queen’s<br />

University Belfast)<br />

An unenclosed early medieval house was uncovered on the west slope of a drumlin during<br />

the construction of a private dwelling. <strong>The</strong> structure was identified by the presence of a<br />

circular gully which may have acted as a drip-trench for a roundhouse (Fig. 44). <strong>The</strong> gully<br />

contained quantities of souterrain ware, suggesting a terminus post quem occupation date<br />

from the eighth century. No structural remains for the roundhouse were discovered due to<br />

truncation of the upper soil layers, but the gully enclosed an area 8m in diameter, implying<br />

that the roundhouse was slightly smaller than this.<br />

Fig. 45: Circular gully at Terryhoogan, Co. Armagh (after McSparron 2004, 18).<br />

References:<br />

McSparron, C. 2004. Terryhoogan, Scarva, Co. Armagh. Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork<br />

Data Structure Report 028.<br />

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