County: Antrim Site name: BALLYKENNEDY (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/29
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 720755m, N 876801m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.624978, -6.129971
This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. Trial-trenching had revealed two possible linear ditches in the vicinity of a pair of conjoined raths. The trench was re-excavated to reveal a mid-brown clayey topsoil, 0.3m thick, overlying the compact brown/orange clay subsoil. A linear cut, 0.75m wide by 0.5m deep and filled with charcoal-flecked compact grey/brown clay, was uncovered 1.8m from the northern end of the trench. A second linear cut, 1.4m wide by 0.5m deep and filled with charcoal-flecked compact mid-brown clay, was uncovered 18m from the northern end of the trench. Excavation showed these to be modern agricultural features.
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