Archaeological sites · Northern Ireland

Mount Sandel Mesolithic site

Mount Sandel Mesolithic site — excavated mesolithic huts in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is a archaeological in ireland. (Excavated mesolithic huts in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.) According to Wikipedia: "The Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, near the River Bann and just to the east of the Iron Age Mount Sandel Fort. It is one of the oldest archaeological sites in Ireland with carbon dating indicating an age of 9,000 years old (7,000BC). Gwendoline Cave in County Clare is the only site in Ireland with evidence of human occupation that pre-dates this location. Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland of Mount Sandel, in Causeway Coast and Glens Council area, at Grid Ref: C8533 3076. It was excavated by Peter Woodman in the 1970s."

Coordinates: 55.1161, -6.6642

Sources

wikidata: Q1950705 (CC0)
wikipedia: Mount Sandel Mesolithic site (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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