County: Antrim Site name: CARNLOUGH NORTH (Windy Ridge)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: P.C. Woodman, UCC. R. Doggart.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)
ITM: E 728224m, N 918886m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.001030, -5.995760
An area 6x12m was opened up where phosphate and magnetometer surveys indicated settlement. The removal of the thin topsoil layer revealed a range of Neolithic artefacts scattered in an arc to the S. of a slight depression, probably a hearth, and delimited to the S. and W. by a scatter of stones, possibly a low wind-break. The pottery, often found in groups of sherds, included pieces of decorated Neolithic bowls, or Sandhills ware. There were numbers of flint artefacts, especially hollow scrapers, and flint flakes, with some quartz flakes also present.
Though there were no faunal remains, this would seem to be a temporary occupation site associated with cattle-minding or hunting.
