What is recorded here

Lyres Hill stands in County Antrim as a layered witness, holding a Neolithic palisaded settlement beneath a Late Bronze Age and Iron Age hilltop enclosure. People may have lived beside the wooden gates before climbing higher to watch the sky and defend the ridge. The stones and soil remember both eras, keeping the hill busy across centuries instead of belonging to one moment.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as NEOLITHIC PALISADED SETTLEMENT & LATE BRONZE AGE - IRON AGE HILLTOP ENCLOSURE: LYLES HILL. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; NEOLITHIC; EARLY NEO; L.B.A.; L.B.A./I.A.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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