Mount Sandel Mesolithic site
Model of a Mount Sandel Hut
The Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, just to the east of the iron age Mount Sandel Fort.[1] It is one of the oldest archaeological site in Ireland with carbon dating indicating an age of 9,000 years old (7,000BC).[2] Gwendoline Cave, County Clare is the only site in Ireland with evidence of human occupation which pre-dates this location.[3] Mount Sandel Mesolithic site is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland of Mount Sandel, in Coleraine Borough Council area, at Grid Ref: C8533 3076.[4] It was excavated by Peter Woodman in the 1970s.[1][5]
It has been said that "The Mt. Sandel excavations dominate the picture of the Early Mesolithic [in Ireland] as so few other sites have been excavated and fully published, let alone found. Not only that, but here was evidence for dwellings – until recently it was not until the Neolithic that there was again evidence for houses in Ireland."[6]
See also
- Mount Sandel Fort
References
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^ "Earliest evidence of humans in Ireland". BBC News. 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
^ "Mount Sandel Mesolithic settlement site" (PDF). Environment and Heritage Service NI. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
^ "Mountsandel: where Irish history started". Coleraine Times. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
^ [https://www.lithicsireland.ie/mlitt_mesolithic_west_ireland_chap_3.html Ch. 3.3, The early prehistory in the west of Ireland: Investigations into the social archaeology of the Mesolithic, west of the Shannon, Ireland., Killian Driscoll, M.Litt. Thesis October 2006
Coordinates: 55°06′58″N 6°39′51″W / 55.1161°N 6.6642°W / 55.1161; -6.6642
