2008:010 - Ballyclan, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Ballyclan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT058–025 Licence number: AE/08/191

Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Site type: Rath

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 711666m, N 876658m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.625786, -6.270705

This project is ongoing. In November 2008 topsoil was mechanically removed from the remainder of Ballyclan Rath, Co Antrim, a portion of which was excavated in 2006 (Excavations 2006, No. 11, AE/06/140). The excavation of the exposed strata is to commence in February 2009. The results of this excavation will be reported in the next bulletin.