County: Antrim Site name: MALLUSK: Hightown Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Cia McConway, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 729803m, N 881994m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.669363, -5.987642
The development encloses an area of some 65ha and is situated within the Mallusk and Ballywonard townlands, lying to the south-east of Glengormley. Monitoring in Phase 1A had already uncovered a short curvilinear feature dating to the Bronze Age (Excavations 1999, 4).
During monitoring of Phase 2B, a trough 2.3m north–south by 1.6m and an overlying charcoal spread 10m x 12m were excavated and represent the ploughed-out remains of a fulacht fiadh. This site was found approximately 200m north-east of the Early Bronze Age gully excavated in Phase 1A and may represent part of a larger Early Bronze Age archaeological landscape.
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