County: Antrim Site name: Greenmount Campus, Greenmount Road, Antrim
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/10/09
Author: ohanna Vuolteenaho and Timo Wegner, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 6, Channel Wharf, 21 Old Channel Road, Belfast, BT3 9DE.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714997m, N 886530m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.713694, -6.215258
The site is located at the Greenmount Campus on the Greenmount Road to the south-east of the town of Antrim, Co. Antrim. The proposed development concerns the creation of a new dairy building on a subrectangular area measuring approximately 160m north–south by approximately 125m at its widest point, and the demolition of several existing buildings in the northern half of the site.
There are ten recorded sites within a radius of 1km of the development site, with one, an enclosure (ANT050–087), located within the boundaries of the development area. Four sites recorded on the Industrial Heritage Record are located within close proximity to the proposed development, consisting of former paper mills, bleach mills and flax or beetling mills, of which there are either no traces visible any longer or which have been converted into houses.
The enclosure is shown on the OS map sheets of 1834 and 1857, although there are currently no visible remains on the ground. There were no signs of the feature on the next edition map from 1964, which instead showed several buildings built over the former northern extent of the site.
Two test-trenches were excavated north–south and west–east across the proposed development. Apart from several drains and service trenches as well as other modern disturbances, only one deposit of possible archaeological potential was uncovered.
