2008:047 - STEEPLE, Antrim
County: Antrim
Site name: STEEPLE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/08/099
Author: Robert M. Chapple, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: Ritual site - pond, Barrow - ring-barrow, Settlement cluster, Enclosure, Souterrain and Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715986m, N 888213m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.728578, -6.199251
Excavation over the past three years has revealed the presence of a Neolithic ritual pond (from which were recovered the fragments of five polished stone axes), three Bronze Age ring-barrows, a large plectrum-shaped Early Christian enclosure with associated house structures, earth-cut souterrains and a possible road. Also uncovered were three discrete clusters of narrow curving gullies, possibly the remnants of structures. The remains of a Beaker vessel were recovered in close association with one of these clusters. Post-excavation analysis of this site had yet to begin at the time of writing.