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Mound – ?barrow is a Bronze Age mound located near Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument sits on bedrock composed of Palaeogene extrusive rocks, predominantly mafic lava and mafic tuff formed during the Paleogene period. This volcanic geology, part of the wider basalt plateau that characterises the North Antrim landscape, would have been a familiar terrain to Bronze Age communities in the region.
The mound remains a significant archaeological feature, though its precise classification as a barrow requires further investigation, indicated by the question mark in its designation. Such Bronze Age burial mounds are characteristic monuments of the second and first millennia before Christ across the British Isles, serving as focal points for Bronze Age communities and often containing cremated remains or grave goods reflecting the burial practices of the period.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 3479, recognising its importance as a Bronze Age monument. Located at grid reference J2043090080, the mound contributes to the archaeological landscape of North Antrim, an area with a substantial Bronze Age presence marked by similar funerary monuments and settlement evidence across the plateau terrain.
Mound - ?barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 3479. View the official record →
Mound – ?barrow is a Bronze Age mound located near Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 3479.
Mound - ?barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a mound. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Mound - ?barrow 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 3479.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mound - raised rath? (5.3 km), Raised rath (6 km), Rath and motte (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mound - ?barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Mound - ?barrow stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.