County: Derry Site name: BALLYMENAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/100
Author: Norman Crothers, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 680344m, N 922505m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.043566, -6.742877
A badly disturbed spread of burnt-mound materialwas uncovered immediately to the east of a field drain which formed the field boundary between Fields 58F02 and 58F03 on the North-West Gas Pipeline. No remains of the burnt mound survived on the west side of the drain. The spread measured 9.5m north-south by 1.75m and survived to a depth of 0.4m. A large irregular pit measuring 3m east-west by 2.5m and 0.6m deep and filled with a dark-brown sandy clay lay 11.5m to the south-east. No troughs or associated features were uncovered upon excavation of the burnt-mound spread and no finds were recovered from either feature.
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