What is recorded here

Hot stones hissed in water beside the Ballydown trackway, marking a place where people cooked, gathered and lived across ages. The site carries a Bronze Age cooking tradition, a later trackway and an early medieval structure, suggesting the land stayed useful long after the first fires died. What is certain is that the ground records repeated human presence, not a single forgotten event.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BRONZE AGE COOKING PLACES / FULACHTA FIADH, TRACKWAY & E. MEDIEVAL STRUCTURE. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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