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Early Christian brooch found in Ballylongford

By DÓNAL NOLAN dnolan@kerryman.ie

Wednesday February 03 2010

OVER 1,400 years after Christians first began spreading the gospel in Kerry a Ballylongford family has made the startling find of a bronze brooch in the peat ashes of their range, bridging the time gap in an instant and stunning archaeologists.

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