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2011:120 - BALLYCAIRN: Ballycairn Road, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry

Site name: BALLYCAIRN: Ballycairn Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: C 83492 34080

Licence number: AE/11/03E

Author: Stephen Gilmore, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 683436m, N 934086m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.147069, -6.691127

Six trenches were opened using a digger with a smooth-edged bucket and all were excavated to the surface of the subsoil. The topsoil varied between 0.07m and 0.15m in depth and the underlying subsoil was brownish-orange clay. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered.


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