What is recorded here
Mud and memory in County Antrim. A ring fort became a flax dam, brute geometry repurposed without ceremony. Human hands kept doing what they do: taking dead shape and making it work again.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PROBABLE RATH REUSED AS FLAX DAM. Recorded period: E.C./MED. 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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