2006:104 - Magheraliskmisk, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Magheraliskmisk

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/164

Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.

Site type: Land drains

Period/Dating:

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.