County: Antrim Site name: RATHKEEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/03/140
Author: Norman Crothers, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Pit and Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 717483m, N 903733m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.867602, -6.169746
This field was advance stripped ahead of the North-West Gas Pipeline to investigate a possible linear ditch, adjacent to a large rath (SMR 33:27), revealed during trial-trenching. The possible ditch proved to be a modern plough furrow but several archaeological features—four pits and a linear ditch—were uncovered elsewhere in the field. A single sherd of post-medieval pottery was recovered from the fill of the ditch. No finds were recovered from any of the other features.
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