1999:004 - BALLYUTOAG, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: BALLYUTOAG

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

Author: Cormac McSparron, NAC

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

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

ITM: E 729623m, N 880394m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.655045, -5.991139

At Ballyutoag townland, Co. Antrim, at Tarmac Quarry Products Ltd, Hightown Quarry, during monitoring of a quarry extension, a spread of western Neolithic pottery and struck flint was recorded at c. 270m OD. Although a team of archaeologists carried out further investigations in the area of the finds, no structures were found.

Unit 6, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast