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The Mitchelstown Face Cup.

When archaeologists confirmed in recent years, what had long been suspected, that the earliest known settlers in Co Cork were hunter-gatherers who lived near Fermoy over 10,100 years ago, they pointed to their discovery of what was termed the Mitchelstown Face Cup, dating back to the Bronze Age.

This previously unknown type of ceramic vessel was recovered from a site 1.5km to the west of Mitchelstown on the northern bank of the Gradoge River, on the route of the N8 Mitchelstown Relief Road.

Although one of 3 pottery vessels excavated from the site, it was the most remarkable. It consisted of a small ‘cup’ that measured approximately 120mm wide at the rim and 70mm deep internally ...

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