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2009:188 - DUNGIVEN: Dungiven Trunk Watermain, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry

Site name: DUNGIVEN: Dungiven Trunk Watermain

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/08/123

Author: Paul McCooey, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: Pit, Hearth and Burnt spread

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

ITM: E 669211m, N 909153m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.925300, -6.920253

Two areas of archaeology were noted during monitoring of this project. Area A contained two pits and a small spread. One of the pits was interpreted as a receptacle for hearth material while the other contained several sherds of prehistoric pottery. One Bronze Age vase food vessel, two cordoned urns and a single Late Bronze Age coarseware vessel were represented by the assemblage. The spread contained sherds of pottery representative of a single, undecorated Neolithic carinated bowl. Area B contained two small hearths. Fragments of a Bronze Age vase food vessel and a cordoned urn were recovered from one of these hearths.


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