Brusselstown Ring: Ireland’s Lost Proto-Urban City
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LiDAR and photogrammetry reveal Brusselstown Ring as a vast Bronze Age–Iron Age hill-fort spanning two hilltops with over 600 micro-topographical features—hundreds of roundhouse platforms—suggesting a densely planned settlement of 2,000–3,500 people. The discovery of a monumental cistern and extensive communal infrastructure challenges the view that prehistoric Ireland was sparsely settled, pushing proto-urban scale back to around 1200 BC and reshaping our understanding of social coordination in the Atlantic Bronze Age.
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