County: Antrim Site name: FERRYSTOWN, Gortgole
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Cormac Bourke, Ulster Museum
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 696745m, N 906790m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.899496, -6.491657
In a continuing investigation of the Bann drainage dumps, an area 20m x 60m was sampled to a depth of 1m in the interval between tree-felling and replanting. An Early Bronze Age axe-head, a Late Bronze Age sword and a fragment of Hiberno-Norse ring-money, as well as a few Mesolithic flint flakes, were uncovered.
Local people reported finding four polished stone axes, and a timber structure was recorded on the Clady river at Drumnacanon, Co. L'derry.
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