Giants Ring, Belfast
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The Giant's Ring is a henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It consists of a circular enclosure, 200 m in diameter, surrounded with an 4 m high earthwork bank with five entrances, and a small neolithic passage grave slightly off-centre. The tomb is believed to date from ca. 3000 BC, and the bank slightly later. It can be viewed plainly using Google Earth at 54 deg 32 min North and 5 deg 56 min West.
A ritual site adjacent to the henge was excavated in the 1990s by Barrie Hartwell of the Queen's University of Belfast.
[edit] External links
- Photos of the Giant's Ring
- The Prehistory of the Giant's Ring and Ballynahatty Townland
- Aerial photograph of the Giant's Ring taken in 1984
- The Giant's Ring on Google Maps
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