rath antrim

A rath or ringfort of c.500-1000 A.D., with tree-covered raised platform surrounded by a waterlogged ditch. It is attractively presented in a housing estate on the outskirts of Antrim town....

It is slightly dished in the centre, and the surrounding bank has largely disappeared. this enclosure was preceded by an earlier round structure (built perhaps around A.D. 850) whose inhabitants had used sophisticated domestic wooden vessels. Little more than the ditch of this earlier rath remained when excavations on the site in 1946-47 revealed that the earlier rath had been partially demolished when the existing earthen rath was constructed around A.D. 1000. Six concentric rings of oak post...