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2010:039 - KILWAUGHTER: Kilwaughter Quarry, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim

Site name: KILWAUGHTER: Kilwaughter Quarry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/10/137

Author: Christina O’Regan, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

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

Site type: Habitation site

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

ITM: E 735352m, N 901270m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.840977, -5.892706

Test-trenching and subsequent excavation was carried out at the top of the quarry in advance of further blasting. Several stake-holes and a spread, containing sherds of Bronze Age pottery and fragments of worked flint, were excavated.


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