What is recorded here

Derry Beg in County Armagh layers a Neolithic settlement beneath Bronze Age barrows and an Iron Age barrow, proving the land stayed alive across thousands of years. People may have first settled there, then buried their dead beside the old houses, and finally returned to stack earth above the bones again. The site is not a single event but a long conversation between the living and the forgotten.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Neolithic settlement, Bronze Age barrows, Iron Age barrow. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; BRONZE AGE; IRON AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic settlement, Bronze Age barrows, and an Iron Age barrow; spanning the 4th millennium BCE to the 1st millennium BCE. This site reflects continuous ritual and domestic use of the landscape over three prehistoric periods, highlighting its long-term cultural and ceremonial significance in the region.

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