What is recorded here
Burnt bones and quiet ceremony marked Ballyvesey during the Bronze Age. People travelled to this place in County Antrim, released what they could carry, and trusted the land to keep the rest.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as URN BURIALS. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; BRONZE AGE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age urn burials; associated with cremation practices common in the British Isles during the second millennium BCE. These burials signify early ritual and funerary traditions in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Cave Hill CaveCave · 3.2 mi