2006:1964 - SULLENBOY, Tyrone

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tyrone Site name: SULLENBOY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: TYR029–005 Licence number: AE/06/214

Author: Brooke Jamieson, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Site type: Pit

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 680384m, N 877695m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.641049, -6.754713

An oval pit was uncovered c. 20m south-east of the rath at Sullenboy, Westland Road, Cookstown. The pit was oriented north-east/south-west and measured 1.45m by 1.2m by 0.65m deep. It was filled with a grey silty sand with occasional charcoal flecking below a brown sandy clay which in turn was overlain by another charcoal-flecked grey silty sand. The pit had steep, almost vertical, sides with a shallow ledge on the southern end and a round base. No datable finds were recovered.

30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ