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Dunluce Castle, and town. Archeology in Antrim.
The life of common people of the 17th Century preserved.
The ruin of the basalt cliffside Castle Dunluce, dating from the 13th Century, is no longer alone. With its tale of the later kitchens shearing off and falling into the sea along with 7 cooks (a cobbler escaped), the site is compelling: a must-see for car-wanderers. Now there is another reason to explore: a 17th Century town, there at Dunluce, ruins below ground, previously unexplored. See http://www.archaeology.org/issues/206-1603.
Dunluce Timeline:
13th Century -- a rural manor was here
15th Century -- fireplace and doorway, part of first fortifications, found.
The ruin of the basalt cliffside Castle Dunluce, dating from the 13th Century, is no longer alone. With its tale of the later kitchens shearing off and falling into the sea along with 7 cooks (a cobbler escaped), the site is compelling: a must-see for car-wanderers. Now there is another reason to explore: a 17th Century town, there at Dunluce, ruins below ground, previously unexplored. See http://www.archaeology.org/issues/206-1603.
Dunluce Timeline:
13th Century -- a rural manor was here
15th Century -- fireplace and doorway, part of first fortifications, found.