1969:008 - SHALWY COURT CAIRN, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal

Site name: SHALWY COURT CAIRN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: —

Author: L.N.W. Flanagan, Ulster Museum

Author/Organisation Address: —

Site type: Megalithic tomb - court tomb

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 564853m, N 874812m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.620320, -8.544183

Third season’s excavation at Shalwy Court Cairn. The site is now completely excavated. Excavation in the inner chamber revealed an Iron Age occupation under which was a Neolithic deposit. This contained featureless pottery sherds and flint implements particularly Hollow Scrapers. Final clearance of the forecourt also produced more flint implements.