1998:097 - SHANTALLOW, Derry, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry Site name: SHANTALLOW, Derry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 14A:20 Licence number:

Author: Cormac McSparron, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: Road - road/trackway

Period/Dating: Neolithic (4000BC-2501 BC)

ITM: E 644482m, N 921486m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.038907, -7.304095

The excavation of a trench to accommodate a pipeline adjacent to an earlier trench that exposed a Neolithic site, possibly a trackway, necessitated archaeological mitigation.

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