County: Antrim Site name: BALLYKENNEDY (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/156
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 720992m, N 876543m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.622600, -6.126420
This site consisted of the remains of a ploughed-down burnt mound with associated trough and pit. The removal of the surviving burnt-mound material revealed a subrectangular trough set within a roughly oval depression and a large irregular pit to the south.
The large depression measured 8.5m north–south by 8.2m, with a maximum depth of 0.2m. The subrectangular trough, which measured 1.92m east–west by 0.9m by 0.55m deep, was situated close to the north edge of the depression. Its base and sides had been lined with unworked roundwood timbers. The lower fill of the trough was sticky grey clay containing a substantial quantity of medium-sized to large stones that had been sealed by a 0.34m-thick peat layer. The large irregular pit, which measured 3m north-east/south-west by 2.1m by 0.12m deep, was situated 1.5m to the south of the south edge of the large depression.
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