County: Down Site name: MOYGANNON (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/90
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 712483m, N 853055m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.413627, -6.267064
This site consisted of two arcs of gully and pits, a group of intercutting pits and a spread of charcoal-rich clayey silt containing large stones. Unfortunately this site was destroyed by the pipe-welding team before excavation was completed and this description is based on the limited excavation that had been carried out.
The two concentric gully arcs lay at the upslope south-west limit of archaeological activity. The earlier gully had been cut at its north-west end by a subcircular pit which had in turn been cut by the later gully. This later gully, which was situated on the south-west side of the earlier one, had also truncated two small intercutting pits. The group of intercutting pits was situated some 7m to the north-east of the two gullies and consisted of a complex arrangement of eleven features. In the absence of full excavation, although the relationships between the various elements had been established, it is only possible to measure some of the dimensions of the features from the drawn sections. The spread of charcoal-rich clayey silt containing large stones measured 5.7m north-west/south-east by 3.5m by 0.38m deep lay at the north-east, downslope, limit of archaeological activity.
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