County: Tyrone Site name: GORTIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/00/66
Author: Maybelline Gormley, NAC
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 649321m, N 886473m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.723905, -7.234389
The Water Service required archaeological monitoring of the construction of a pipeline and sewerage works at Gortin, Co. Tyrone. In one section of the pipeline trench, 32 post-holes and three sections of construction trench were found in an area measuring 20m by 4m. Coarse pot, some of it decorated with cord-impressed patterns, and a few fragmentary flint artefacts were found in this area. Given the nature of the narrow pipeline trench, it is impossible to get a clear idea of what structures were represented, but it is clear that they represented more than one structure. The date of the structure, judging from the pottery, appears to be late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age.
The fieldwork on this site has just been completed, and post-excavation work is about to commence. Environmental archaeological analysis will play a significant role in the study of this site.
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