County: Antrim Site name: Ballyalbanagh 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/168
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 728565m, N 896034m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.795751, -6.000632
This site consisted of two adjacent spreads of burnt-mound material, which had been badly affected by the cutting of modern land drains and recent land improvement. The east spread measured 6m north–south by 5m and the west spread measured 10.3m north–south by 7.7m. Several subsoil-cut features, mostly modern land drains or produced as a result of agricultural activity, were revealed when the burnt-mound material was removed. The main feature uncovered was a subrectangular trough that had been sealed to a depth of 0.51m by the east spread of burnt-mound material. The main fill in the trough was a 0.28m-thick layer of sticky clay containing large stones above a thin silty basal layer. The slightly splayed top of the trough measured 5.5m north-west/south-east by 4.95m. Its rectangular base measured 4.1m north-west/south-east by 2.9m and the trough was 0.84m deep. The poorly preserved remains of wattle and five uprights were discovered around the lower level of the trough. The removal of the west spread of burnt-mound material revealed a raised oval area, 6m east–west by 5.3m, but no other associated features.
