2012:132 - COLERAINE: Loughan Road, Derry
County: Derry
Site name: COLERAINE: Loughan Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/12/105E
Author: Ciara MacManus, FarrimondMacManus Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 687608m, N 929134m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.101875, -6.627226
An archaeological evaluation in the form of machine-cut test trenches was carried out at the site of a proposed single dwelling development at Loughan Road, Coleraine in response to a request for more information from NIEA: HMU. A series of 2m wide test trenches were excavated across the site at 8–10m intervals revealing the remains of two short enigmatic subsoil-cut ditches and a shallow linear gully feature with associated post-hole from which a sherds of potential Early Christian pottery were recovered.