Ballywee
Ballywee ( Irish An Baile Buí - German "the yellow village" ), located between the cities of Antrim and Ballyclare in County Antrim in Northern Ireland , is a complex of two incompletely preserved Raths and three basements , which was created during the Stone Age and still in the Iron Age was used, which the Raths refer to. In the case of basements, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
A remnant of a wall, which originally belonged to a double council, partially encloses an area of around 90 × 50 meters and at least six house floor plans and three basements, which were excavated and restored in 1974 and 1994. Several basements in one settlement are extremely rare. One house at the southern end has a stone-paved floor, a stove and a basement. Two of the ( stone-built ) basements had their access inside the building, the third was isolated. Traces of other buildings as well as the finds of glass beads , iron, a millstone , spindle whorls , ceramics and a silver-plated bronze buckle show that the square was used until the early Middle Ages .
In the vicinity are the stone circle of Ballynoe and Rathbeg ( German "the little Rath" ).
See also
literature
- Chris J. Lynn: A thousand year-old house. In: Ann Hamlin, Chris Lynn (Eds.): Pieces of the Past. Archaeological excavations by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, 1970-1986. HMSO, Belfast 1988.
- Mark Clinton: The Souterrains of Ireland. 2001, ISBN 1-869857-49-6 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 44 ′ 31.5 " N , 6 ° 6 ′ 31.8" W.