1999:001 - AGHNAHOUGH, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: AGHNAHOUGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS Ltd

Site type: Structure

Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)

ITM: E 723824m, N 866797m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.534400, -6.086684

Initial field survey along the line of a proposed aqueduct replacement revealed evidence of a linear setting of stones. As this feature lay within the scope of the cut for the aqueduct, a small test excavation (one trench measuring 3.5m x 1m) was carried out to identify the nature and extent of the feature. No further stones were found, but a very crude stone floor within the area confined by the stones suggested that it had functioned as a structure possibly associated with agricultural activity. Finds from the test excavation showed the feature to be late post-medieval in date.

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