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TWO CAIRNS (unlocated) in Ballymena

TWO CAIRNS (unlocated)

What is recorded here

Two cairns mark an unlocated chamber in Ballymena, preserving a burial or boundary function now hidden from modern sight. They belong to the uncertain period recorded for the site, human-made rather than natural, and they still distinguish itself from ordinary ground. The missing point does not remove the act of building. Someone arranged stone twice, perhaps for a dead person, a field edge or a warning, and that choice survived the loss of its exact address.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TWO CAIRNS (unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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