County: Derry Site name: DRUMACROW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/89
Author: Norman Crothers, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Ring-ditch
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 684603m, N 920686m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.026516, -6.676795
A discontinuous, roughly circular feature measuring approximately 10m in diameter was uncovered close to the southern edge of the working width of the North-West Gas Pipeline on the level summit of a low ridge. On excavation, this proved to be the badly truncated remains of a segmented ring-ditch with a large central cremation pit. The ring-ditch consisted of seven shallow segments, ranging in size from 1.4–2.7m in length and 0.4–0.75m in width. The cremation pit had been cut through a larger, subrectangular pit. Two other features, C39 and C85, lay within the area enclosed by the ring-ditch and two other shallow pits cut its south-east segment, C29. Sherds of Bronze Age pottery were recovered from the fill of C29 and C85.
Thirteen other post-holes and twelve stake-holes were also excavated.
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