County: Derry Site name: GORTENNY, Eglinton
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/01/60
Author: Stephen Gilmore, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Settlement cluster
Period/Dating: Chalcolithic (2500 BC-2201 BC)
ITM: E 652342m, N 919424m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.019622, -7.181515
A series of circular huts, hearths and property boundaries were uncovered in the course of a three-month excavation at this site. Very few artefacts were uncovered, those that were being mostly coarse pottery. The material looked to be late Neolithic/early Bronze Age. Radiocarbon dates are awaited.
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