County: Derry Site name: MOVANAGHER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: B.S. Blades
Site type: Settlement deserted
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 691932m, N 915887m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.982111, -6.563760
Three test holes were excavated near the ruins of the bawn erected by the Mercers’ Company of London during the Ulster Plantation, The average depth of cultural overburden was 30cm. A single stratum in one hole yielded ceramic and glass fragments which may have been deposited during the occupation of a village at Movanagher erected 1615-19 and apparently destroyed in the 1640s. Fragments of Bann river valley flint were also recovered (the river lies less than 120 metres north of the site); P.C. Woodman has suggested that some of these show evidence of Neolithic working.
