2007:20 - Ballysillan, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Ballysillan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/07/183

Author: Lynsey Morton, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.

Site type: Post-medieval millrace

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 730123m, N 877125m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.625560, -5.984850

This licence refers to one phase of the ongoing housing development at Ballysillan Industrial Estate, Ligoneil Road, Belfast. During monitoring the extent of a millrace was uncovered measuring 3m east to west and running 33m north to south with a depth of c. 0.55m. There was no evidence of banks associated with the millrace. All finds recovered were of 19th- and 20th-century origin, including clay pipe, post-medieval pottery and modern china.