County: Antrim Site name: DERRYKILULTAGH (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/26
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 719627m, N 869324m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.558097, -6.150472
This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. Trial-trenching had revealed possible archaeological remains in the vicinity of a ploughed-out rath. The trench was re-excavated to reveal a dark-brown clayey topsoil, 0.4m thick, overlying the compact brown/orange clay subsoil. A possible linear cut, 1.2m wide, uncovered 9m from the northern end of the trench proved to be a very slight undulation in the subsoil filled with compact dark-brown clay. Excavation showed that a possible pit measuring 0.9m by 0.3m uncovered 3m to the south of the previous feature was merely a small natural depression filled with dark-brown clay loam. Four other possible features uncovered proved to be post-medieval land drains or the remains of potato ridges and were not archaeological in origin.
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