County: Antrim Site name: Muckamore Abbey Hospital, Oldstone
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT050–152, 050–171 Licence number: AE/07/42 (licence granted retrospectively)
Author: Ronan McHugh, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: Cropmark site
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 716756m, N 884063m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.691139, -6.188967
Monitoring took place of a site associated with the redevelopment of Muckamore Abbey Hospital. The construction work was centred on the site of two registered archaeological sites that were both identified as elliptical cropmarks from aerial photographs taken during the 1960s. The footprint of the development, comprising an area of c. 1200m2, was excavated down to natural strata. No features or deposits of archaeological significance were observed during this exercise, suggesting that archaeological remains associated with the cropmarks had been truncated by earlier development on the site.
