Adjacent to the well-known Iron Age ceremonial centre of Navan Fort in Northern Ireland, an expansivecomplex of Late Bronze Age monuments was discovered in the 1990s. Centred on the hillfort known asHaughey’s Fort, this complex includes several unusual monuments, such as an artificially constructedritual pool and a linear earthwork. Recent re-analysis of this landscape, incorporating a suite of methodsincluding new targeted excavations, geophysical prospection, topographical surveys, and isotopicstudies, has begun to transform our understanding. These investigations, combined with previousstudies, have revealed a multifaceted system of large-scale settlement and craftworking, long-distancetrade, agricultural centralisation, and ritual and religious activities, all integrated within the complex,which itself is enclosed by a massive, newly discovered 109-hectare hillfort. This paper presents thesenew findings, contextualises them within the Irish and European Bronze Age, and explores how the scaleof the evidence challenges previous models of social complexity.
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