County: Antrim Site name: TOWN PARKS, ANTRIM
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/11/116
Author: Stephen Gilmore
Site type: Bastion
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715060m, N 886525m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.713634, -6.214283
A permanent Christmas-tree socket was to be created on the bastion (ANT050-183) in Antrim town. A rectangular hole measuring 0.9m by 1m was cut in the concrete on top of the bastion. The concrete surface was found to be between 0.1m and 0.15m thick on a 0.05m-thick cement/hardcore bed and overlay red sandy clay, which contained occasional fist-sized stones that filled the centre of the bastion to a depth of around 1m below the ground surface. The clay appeared to be redeposited glacial till which had been used to fill the core of the bastion. The pit was excavated to a depth of c. 0.95m to accommodate the socket and its manhole cover. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered during the extended excavation. The socket was fitted into the pit, made secure with concrete and the manhole cover fitted.
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