County: Antrim Site name: Ballylumford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT041–007 Licence number: AE/06/294
Author: Brian Sloan, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 742970m, N 901620m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.842003, -5.774020
An archaeological evaluation was carried out in January 2007 to the rear of 91 Ballylumford Road, Islandmagee Co. Antrim, in advance of an extension to a house. The site is best known for the portal tomb in the front garden, as well as numerous findspots of gold and other artefacts in the vicinity.
Two trenches were excavated to the rear of the property prior to development. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted in any of the trenches, with building rubble (associated with the construction of 91 Ballylumford Road) directly overlying the natural bedrock.
