County: Antrim Site name: RATHLIN ISLAND: Church Bay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: K. Wiggins, for DoE
Site type: Cist
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 714927m, N 950779m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.290669, -6.190564
A salvage excavation was organised to examine an area threatened by gravel-quarrying. The site is at the edge of an extensive but ill-defined area of cist burials, with a standing stone to the N.W. A number of Bronze Age and Viking Age graves were uncovered during gravel excavation, and the excavation located two inhumation cist burials containing sherds of food vessels.
Wiggins, K. (1988) ‘Keeping ahead of the quarrying’, Hamlin, A. & Lynn, C.J. (eds) Pieces of (lie Past, HMSO).
