2010:039 - Kilwaughter Quarry, Kilwaughter, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Kilwaughter Quarry, Kilwaughter

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/10/137

Author: Christina O’Regan, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY.

Site type: Bronze Age

Period/Dating:

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.