What is recorded here

Ballylinny holds a excavated Rath and a possible Mesolithic hoard, meaning the land has been shaped and hidden in more than one era. The Rath suggests people built, lived and abandoned a defined place, while the uncertain hoard suggests someone buried goods and left them behind. Together they turn a quiet County Antrim field into a layered chamber of human choices: to occupy, to conceal, and to disappear.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Mesolithic activity (hoard?) and Rath (excavated). Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; MESOLITHIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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