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A hill fort that ran like a capital
Top Image: Human skull fragment recovered from the King's Stables ritual pool near Haughey's Fort, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The remains were deliberately deposited as part of a Late Bronze Age ceremonial landscape associated with ritual activity and the nearby hillfort. Source: James O'Driscoll and Patrick Gleeson/CC BY 4.0

A hill fort that ran like a capital

County Armagh, Northern Ireland. about 1200 BC. First cities. Known. Free

It was not a capital with its own government.

Known. Haughey's Fort was a large centre of craft, trade, and ceremony.

The fort stands on a hill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It dates to about 1200 BC, in the Late Bronze Age, nearly 3,000 years ago. A new study found signs of more than 200 timber buildings inside the fort, including some unusually large round ones. Earthworks once enclosed about 109 hectares. A fenced avenue about 87 metres long led down to a made pool called the King's Stables. Earlier digs there found moulds for leaf-shaped bronze swords, animal bones, and a piece of a human skull placed in the pool.

The page does not say what is still argued.

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