County: Derry Site name: BRACKFIELD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: N.F. Brannon, DoE
Site type: Bawn
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 651040m, N 909588m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.931395, -7.203620
Work was carried out to try to locate an early 17th-century house within the bawn enclosure. The foundation trench for the front wall ran the full width of the bawn, but no internal walls or floor levels were noted. The house was replaced by farm buildings constructed after 1700, including a stable with a fine cobbled floor. Walls and floor levels were also absent in the N tower, and the footings of the S tower did not survive the building of the nearby road. There was no trace of the original bawn gate, the base of the original wall running under the existing gate. N Devon pottery and some pieces of glass comprised most of the 17th-century finds.
Also discovered were a small pit containing burnt bone and Neolithic artefacts, and a large pottery vessel, probably Bronze Age, in redeposited subsoil.
