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The site has been described as the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland and is claimed to contain the oldest known field systems globally. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Using various dating methods, it has been stated that the creation and development of the Céide Fields went back approximately 5500 years (~3500 BCE), [ 4 ] some 2,500 years before this type ...
The most famous ancient field system in Ireland is the Céide Fields, an extensive series of stone walls dating back to 3500 BC. Similar stone wall field systems dating back to the Atlantic Bronze Age are visible in western Ireland and on the Aran Islands. [6] [7]
Celtic field is an old name for traces of early (prehistoric) agricultural field systems found in North-West Europe, i.e. Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states. The fields themselves are not related to the Celtic culture. [1]
Rundale clachan patterns of settlement still visible in Inver, Kilcommon, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. The rundale system (apparently from the Irish Gaelic words "roinn" which refers to the division of something and "dáil", in the sense of apportionment) was a form of occupation of land in Ireland, somewhat resembling the English common field system.
The Céide Fields [11] [12] [13] is an archaeological site on the north County Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, about 7 kilometres northwest of Ballycastle, and the site is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland and contains the oldest known field systems in the world.
A farmer in Wales had a field that just made life too difficult. He was continually hitting slate and stone. It turns out, there was a good reason for all the struggle: a buried Roman fort.. Mark ...
Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...
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