King's Stables
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The King's Stables is an archaeological site in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
It consists of a boggy hollow, originally an artificial, flat-bottomed pool about 25m (82 feet) in diameter, partly surrounded by an earthen bank, about 300m (985 feet) north-east of Haughey's Fort. It dates to the late Bronze Age, ca. 1000 BC, contemporary with Haughey's Fort. Excavations in 1975 discovered clay moulds for bronze leaf-shaped swords, pottery, and items of worked bone and wood. Also found were 214 animal bones and a human skull.
The name is probably related to a local tradition that the ancient kings of Ulster watered their horses and washed their chariots in the pool.
[edit] References
- Chris Lynn, Navan Fort: Archaeology and Myth, Wordwell Books, 2003
- R. B. Warner, "The Navan Archaeological Complex: a Summary", Ulidia, December Publications, 1994
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