County: Antrim Site name: WEST DIVISION
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/09/218
Author: Mary Johnston, Gahan & Long Ltd, 7–9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast, BT5 4NE.
Site type: Prehistoric
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 737222m, N 884493m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.689841, -5.871545
It is proposed to carry out the development of a residential area on the lands west of Shorelands, on the Shore Road, Greenisland. Prior to the commencement of groundworks, Phase 1 of the development was topsoil-stripped under supervision.
Several areas of archaeological potential were uncovered, cordoned off and subsequently excavated. The excavation revealed a series of isolated or small, loose clusters of subsoil-cut features that comprised seventeen pits, a large spread, a post-hole, gully and trough. This represents a limited degree of probable prehistoric activity, as indicated by the polished stone axe and the presence of a trough, which is usually associated with a burnt mound or fulachta fiadh, which typically date from the Bronze Age (2000–500BC). Archaeological resolution of this phase of the development has now been completed.
