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CAIRN in Ballygilbert

CAIRN

What is recorded here

CAIRN in Ballygilbert, County Antrim, is a prehistoric human arrangement of stones, old enough that no exact date or builder survives. It is not a modern decoration or an abandoned machine. Under that uncertainty, the chamber may have held a dead person, marked a boundary, or watched the sky. The stones still do one of those things, even if human memory has forgotten which.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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What survives
Recorded monument

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