{"id":273825,"date":"2026-01-08T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273825\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:03:07","slug":"researchers-find-co-wicklow-had-the-oldest-prehistoric-town-in-ireland-and-the-uk-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273825\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find Co Wicklow had the oldest prehistoric town in Ireland and the UK – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Researchers find Co Wicklow had the oldest prehistoric town in Ireland and the UK<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Wicklow hillfort designated Ireland’s earliest proto-town<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  3. Wicklow hill fort identified as oldest prehistoric \u2018proto-town\u2019 in Ireland<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  4. County Wicklow: Settlement find may challenge Vikings first towns theory – researcher<\/a>  BBC<\/li>\n
  5. Scientists uncover Ireland\u2019s largest prehistoric hillfort settlement, reshaping views of Bronze Age society<\/a>  Archaeology News Online Magazine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers find Co Wicklow had the oldest prehistoric town in Ireland and the UK  The Journal Wicklow hillfort designated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[11217,139016,9,10,139017,139018,18,13,14,6,139019,19,17,11,12,15,16,139020,5,7,8,946],"class_list":{"0":"post-273825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-archaeology","9":"tag-baltinglass","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-brusselstown","13":"tag-brusselstown-ring","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-hillfort","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-new-discovery","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories","29":"tag-wicklow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115858676578487762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}