County: Antrim Site name: Kilwaughter Quarry, Kilwaughter
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: AE/13/152
Author: Jonathan Barkley
Site type: Bronze Age round house
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 735367m, N 901372m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.841896, -5.892420
Topsoil stripping took place ahead of an extension to a limestone quarry. Two areas of archaeology were uncovered.
AREA 1
Area 1 contained a Bronze Age round house c. 9m in diameter as well as several external spreads and pits. The house consisted of several sections of external gully with a ring of internal post-holes. The house had been deliberately destroyed and the remains covered. Following this destruction a cremation burial had been inserted into the covering material. The site produced over 500 sherds of prehistoric pottery and 2200 pieces of struck flint. A radiocarbon determination from one of the post-holes of the house returned a date of 1660-1500 BC and the burial returned a date of 1260-1050 BC.
AREA 2
Area 2 consisted of a single isolated pit at the top of the slope. The pit contained numerous sherds of Neolithic Carinated bowl and several pieces of struck flint. It is likely that this feature was associated with features excavated during previous phases of work.
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