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There were over 3000 Bronze Age artefacts discovered, and 10,000 finds in total, which is more than any other site in Ireland before or since.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Rathgall investigations also revealed it to be a site of international importance, transforming our understanding of the development of Irish Hillforts by providing evidence of intensive occupation of the site in the middle to late Bronze Age period, whereas previous to this, Irish hilltop enclosures were understood to be of a later of Iron Age date (as in Britain and elsewhere in Europe). Among the treasure trove of finds, are <span>glass, bronze and stone objects, clay moulds, gold and glass beads and other artefacts.<\/span> The sheer scale of artefacts discovered, and the subsequent analysis and archiving of same has led to the time delay in producing a publication on the site to date.\u00a0There are two main outputs from the Hidden Heritage project; creation of a long awaited print ready publication and an oral history project.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14447,"template":"","class_list":["post-14446","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rathgall Hidden Heritage Project - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This project will support the promotion and presentation of Rathgall Hillfort, an archaeological site of exceptional importance located in south west County Wicklow.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/rathgall-hidden-heritage-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rathgall Hidden Heritage Project - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This project will support the promotion and presentation of Rathgall Hillfort, an archaeological site of exceptional importance located in south west County Wicklow. 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