page_title: Glens of Antrim
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Glens of Antrim / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: Didn't know if this one might be too much of a toughie (technical term) but we wanted to know where this gentleman was sitting... And robinparkes supplied the answer - Madman's Window at Glenarm in Co. Antrim! Date: 1860-1883 NLI Ref.: STP_0399
context_page_description: The Glens of Antrim, known locally as simply The Glens, is a region of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It comprises nine glens, that radiate from the Antrim Plateau to the coast. The Glens are an area of outstanding natural beauty and are a major tourist attraction in north Antrim.
  The main towns and villages in the Glens are Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall, Waterfoot, Carnlough and Glenarm.
context_section_description: In the Glens there is evidence of Neolithic communities. At Glencloy, Neolithic people had megalithic tombs in the uplands, while they lived in settlements near the coast at the end of the valley. The beaches were sources of flint, as evidenced by stone tool (lithic) production sites in the glens. 
  At Madman's Window (near Glenarm) Neolithic chipping floors and stone axe rough-outs were found along with Neolithic pottery, scrapers, flakes, and leaf-shaped arrowheads. At Bay Farm in Carnlough, a Neolithic site near marshland, archaeologists found occupation debris, charcoal, postholes, flint cores, axes and Neolithic pottery.
caption: Madman's Window in Antrim, ca. 1860 (National Library of Ireland)
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