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2008:1209 - LURGANBOY: Cloughfin Road Quarry, Tyrone

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tyrone

Site name: LURGANBOY: Cloughfin Road Quarry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/08/35

Author: Paul McCooey, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY

Site type: Barrow - ring-barrow

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 662608m, N 864698m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.526804, -7.032816

Excavation revealed a ring-barrow with associated hearths, post- and stake-holes, a truncated ditch and isolated pits and hearths. The barrow contained a cremation scattered amongst an internal spread of material. A thin fragment of copper/bronze was found associated with the bone.


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