County: Antrim Site name: MAGHERALISKMISK
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/164
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 719129m, N 865108m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.520352, -6.159870
This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. Two trenches had been investigated in the vicinity of a large rath and a possible linear ditch was uncovered in the field beside the rath. The trench was re-excavated to reveal 0.35m-thick dark-brown clayey topsoil overlying the compact yellow/brown sandy/silty clay subsoil, which had been cut by a series of linear features that proved to be post-medieval land drains. Excavation showed that the possible linear ditch was a 1.6m-wide very shallow undulation in the subsoil filled by compact grey/brown clay.
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