County: Antrim Site name: MAD MAN'S WINDOW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: P. C. Woodman, Ulster Museum
Site type: Industrial site
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 734739m, N 912008m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.937559, -5.897220
Excavation of one of a group of Neolithic chipping floors on the edge of a quarry. This proved to be a small but very rich chipping floor which, though only three metres across, was more than ten centimetres thick. On the edge of it a number of flint implements and flint axe roughouts were found. About one metre away were the remains of a cooking pit or hearth which had been sealed by a thick layer of clay and stone.
