County: Antrim Site name: RATHLIN ISLAND: Knockans/Ballynagard/Kilpatrick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/02/126; AE/03/09
Author: Cia McConway and Yvonne McQuaid, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 713877m, N 951539m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.297735, -6.206775
Water Service propose to install a borehole and a pipeline through the townlands of Knockans, Ballynagard and Kilpatrick, Rathlin Island. This involved stripping an area 20m north–south by 15m, while the installation of the water pipe involved stripping a 480m-long corridor, 0.5–0.7m wide. This was monitored. No archaeological deposits were uncovered during the borehole strip; however, a small deposit of charcoal-flecked soil with heat-shattered stone was uncovered c. 30m from the western limit of the pipeline, under licence AE/03/09. Although it was not within the brief of the monitoring to follow this deposit beyond the limits of the pipeline, it has been interpreted as being burnt-mound material.
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