County: Antrim Site name: MAGHERALAVE/ AGHALISLANE/ MAGHERALANE: North Lisburn Feeder Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/165
Author: Ruairí Ó Baoill, c/o Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork
Site type: House - Neolithic, Fulacht fia and Habitation site
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 725424m, N 866397m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.530416, -6.062152
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the line of the proposed road and the manual excavation of exposed archaeological features continued for several weeks beyond the period reported in Excavations 2004 (No. 57). On-site work finished in early May 2005. A second Neolithic house, a sixth fulacht fiadh and a variety of pits, spreads and drains were uncovered in this latter phase.
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN
