What is recorded here

One inch of topsoil contained a ring barrow, a Christian settlement and a Neolithic kitchen. I watched a man scrape his breakfast plate into that inch, feed the residue to ducks, then bury the plate beneath them. The site did not separate periods; it folded them into one living sequence where human waste became animal life and animal life became soil for the next person.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MULTI-PERIOD EXCAVATION - Ring barrows, E.Christian Settlement, Neolithic Settlement. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC; E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic settlement and ring barrows, later overlain by an Early Christian settlement, indicate continuous occupation and reuse of the site from the 4th to the 1st millennium AD. This multi-period site is significant for understanding cultural transitions and landscape use in prehistoric and early historic Northern Ireland.

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