County: Antrim Site name: CONNOR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/12/68
Author: David Kilner and Peter Bowen
Site type: NO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715128m, N 896780m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.805712, -6.209174
A programme of testing was undertaken in advance of a proposed new church hall at Connor Presbyterian Church at Connor, Kells, Co. Antrim. An earlier Presbyterian Meeting house had been recorded on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps, and it was the possibility of remains associated with this which necessitated the testing.
A total of four test trenches were excavated across the footprint of the proposed new church hall. These revealed that much of the area had been altered in the past, with the southern portion of the site raised by up to 1.5m through the dumping of gravels and mortar-rich deposits. A single mortar-bonded stone wall was uncovered on the site with subsequent investigation of cartographic sources indicating that this related to a 20th-century build.
No remains associated with the earlier meeting house were uncovered and the development was allowed to proceed.
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