Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland
2025/11/18 by Dirk Brandherm, C. H. Edwards, Linda Boutoille +1 · 4 voices
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
paper · doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10247
Abstract
Following the identification of more than 600 suspected house platforms on aerial survey data from Brusselstown Ring hillfort, four test excavations revealed evidence of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age occupation, positioning the site as the largest nucleated settlement so far identified in prehistoric Ireland and Britain.
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- Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qube [bsky, 30 points, 0 comments]
- The article explores the Brusselstown Ring site as a major settlement cluster of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, revealing new insights into settlement structures and social organization in la [bsky, 15 points, 0 comments]
- Large Hillfort Settlement Identified in Ireland [lemmy, 10 points, 0 comments]
- Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.1024… »Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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