entity · site_bi_kings_stables
King's Stables
Artificial pool or wetland monument in the Navan-area landscape.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1100 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe — James O’Driscoll, Patrick Gleeson (2026)Combines lidar, geophysics, excavation and archival reassessment to reconstruct the scale and functions of Haughey's Fort and adjacent monuments.
Locator: Abstract; Bronze Age Navan; Creeveroe; Haughey's Fort; King's Stables; conclusion
Research description
Later Bronze Age activity involved construction and deposition in a watery setting. Its relationship to Haughey's Fort and later Navan ceremonial traditions is spatially compelling but should not be converted into one documented political institution.
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe — James O’Driscoll, Patrick Gleeson (2026)Combines lidar, geophysics, excavation and archival reassessment to reconstruct the scale and functions of Haughey's Fort and adjacent monuments.
Locator: Abstract; Bronze Age Navan; Creeveroe; Haughey's Fort; King's Stables; conclusion
Referenced records
- Northern Ireland archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_kings_stables · geography assertion