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Big Collin is a Bronze Age round cairn located near Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of a circular mound of stones typical of burial cairns constructed during the Bronze Age, a period when such structures served as communal or individual funerary monuments across the Irish landscape. Like other cairns of this type and era, Big Collin would have contained evidence of ritual activity and interment practices characteristic of Bronze Age society in Ulster. The site remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary customs in the region.
Big collin. round cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 3025. View the official record →
Big Collin is a Bronze Age round cairn located near Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 3025.
Big collin. round cairn dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a cairn. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Big collin. round cairn is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 3025.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mound - ?barrow (7.1 km), Donegore hill. neolithic hilltop causewayed enclosure & occupation site (7.7 km), Motte (7.9 km).
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