부산대학교 도서관

[anc. Emain Macha] Hilltop enclosure and ritual site at Navan, Co. Armagh, Ireland. It was constructed c. 95 bc, and it is recorded in the Ulster Cycle and other Irish legends as the capital of the northern Irish province of Ulster. Navan Fort is recognized archaeologically as one of a group of Irish ‘royal sites’, including Tara and Dun Ailinne, whose most unusual architectural feature is an enclosure bank placed outside a ditch, in contrast to the normal defensive arrangement of bank within a ditch. The site was excavated by Dudley Waterman between 1963 and 1971. Evidence was recovered of Neolithic occupation, and one of two earthworks in the enclosure, known as Site A, was used in both the Bronze Age and the early medieval period. The second, more substantial mound comprising Site B measured 45 m in diameter, standing 5–6 m high; this was the focus of the most interesting activity on the hill. A Bronze Age settlement under this mound, dating to ...