1996:058 - BALLYARNET LAKE, Shantallow, Derry
County: Derry
Site name: BALLYARNET LAKE, Shantallow
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: —
Author: Declan P. Hurl, Environment and Heritage Service, DoE(NI)
Author/Organisation Address: 5–33 Hill St., Belfast BTJ 2LA
Site type: Road - road/trackway
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 644642m, N 921486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.038893, -7.301593
A 20m-long section of a machine-cut trench for a sewage pipe was examined after local people had drawn attention to significant features within its section.
A layer of peat, overlying the clay subsoil, had groups of stakes driven down through it, whilst on it rested a ‘platform’, at least 15m long and 0.5m thick, composed of compact sandy soils, stones and timbers. Associated with it was a small Western Neolithic bowl and part of a Lyle’s Hill pot; also found in the trench were some crude flints and part of a porcellanite axe.