County: Antrim Site name: KILCOAN MORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Norman Crothers, Archaeological Development Services Ltd
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 745920m, N 899590m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.822932, -5.729164
Burnt mounds were located at various locations along the Belfast Transmission Pipeline. Wherever damage could be avoided excavation did not take place, but at two locations limited investigations were carried out. On one site (Site 9), in Kilcoan More townland, flint artefacts and sherds of Late Bronze Age pottery were found in association with two rectangular pits cut into the subsoil, part of a linear gully and several postholes. A substantial area of burnt material was exposed to the east of the excavated area. (See also No. 11, Excavations 1996).
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