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Ring barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site comprises a circular earthwork characteristic of ring barrow construction, a burial form prevalent in the Bronze Age across the British Isles. Ring barrows typically consist of a central grave or burial deposit surrounded by a circular bank and ditch, serving as a marker for elite or significant individuals within Bronze Age societies. This example forms part of the broader corpus of Bronze Age funerary monuments in Ulster, contributing to understanding of burial practices and settlement patterns in the region during the second millennium before the present era.
Ring barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 3848. View the official record →
Ring barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 3848.
Ring barrow dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a barrow. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ring 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 3848.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Monkstown abbey, monketone, ballynamanagh, monkstown church, monkstown cemetery. medieval & post-med. church & graveyard with hollowed stone (3 km), Bivallate rath (4.7 km), White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey (5.8 km).
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