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Hunt, C. O., “Fire, rush lights and pine at Navan”, Emania 21 (2013): 41–46.

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“Fire, rush lights and pine at Navan”
Periodical
Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 21 (2013)
Emania 21 (2013), Navan Research Group.
Volume
21
Pages
41–46
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The basal fill of the Navan ditch provides information about human activity and vegetation at an important time in the evolution of the site. Palynofacies analysis of the basal fill is characterised by thermally mature (charred) pith of the Juncus rush, together with abundant other thermally mature matter. This is a very unusual assemblage, suggesting the possibility of activity involving rush lights and fire, shortly after the completion of the ditch. Pollen analysis and fluorescence microscopy suggests that pine was a component of the vegetation at Navan and the microcharcoal includes fragments with the bordered pits characteristic of the Pinaceae. Pine was probably extinct during the Iron Age in Ireland so it is possible that at Navan was a stand of introduced pine trees

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Ireland Iron Age
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archaeology
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Dennis Groenewegen
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