Ballyfounder Rath

Ballyfounder Rath is the remains of a ringfort situated on the Ards Peninsula, in County Down, Northern Ireland. It consists of a circular mound about 20m in diameter, with traces of an outer bank and ditch.[1] It is a Scheduled Historic Monument and is at grid ref: J6207 4954.[2]

Excavations

Excavations carried out by Waterman found a Paffrath ware ladle in a layer containing decorated glazed jugs, relating to a ringfort heightened by the Anglo-Normans. This suggested that the ladle was not deposited until the middle of the 13th century, which would mean that it had survived for at least a century.[3] This secondary occupation of Ballyfounder consisted of a small rectangular timber-framed building, a few other post-holes and occupation debris dated to the 13th century by the Anglo-Norman pottery.[4]

gollark: That was broken by claimflag permission changes or something.
gollark: Yet again, people insist on trying to run the rail system OUT OF SPEC.
gollark: But I worry that that sort of thing could sometimes lead to infinite loops.
gollark: The best thing I can come up with for now is to do the somewhat naive somewhat Factorio-style thing of tracking whether carts are currently using a segment of track (in the other direction), and if so forcing a reroute.
gollark: Unfortunately, it seems like proper signalling in case two things want to use one track is Very Hard™.

References
  1. "Ards Peninsula". The Stone Circle. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  2. "Ballyfounder" (PDF). Scheduled Historic Monuments. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
  3. Barry, T.B. (1987). The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland. London: Methuen. p. 96.
  4. Edwards, N (1990). The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. London: BT Batsford. p. 19.
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