Ancient nobles’ ringfort revealed by archaeologists
A ringfort overlooking Galway Bay has been confirmed as a settlement for rulers and nobles in Ireland’s Early Medieval period, according to archaeologists.
Rathgurreen Ringfort, in the Maree area of Co Galway, has been described as an impressive “high-status ” settlement that could date anywhere from the 5th to 12th century Ad.
Осемседмичен археологически разкопки, режисиран от доктор Мишел Комбер и доктор Ноел Маккарти за дисциплината на археологията в Университета в Голуей, също разкри вълнуващи нови пластове на историята на панерамичния обект с панорама на юг към Бъррен, запад към Атлантика, и на север през Галвей. investigated and proposed as a high-status settlement – home to a local ruler such as a king or lord – by Professor Michael Duignan, then chairman of archaeology at the university, in the late 1940s.
Excavations now suggest that parts of the site are potentially 1,000 years older than previously thought, with evidence of contact with Rome, Scotland, France, a...
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