County: Antrim Site name: Magheragall Presbyterian Church, Ballycarrickmaddy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT 063:028 Licence number: AE/13/159E
Author: Stephen Gilmore
Site type: Rath
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 720270m, N 867591m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.542384, -6.141246
Test trenching and excavation were carried out on a small section of rath ditch ahead of the construction of a new church hall.
The heavily disturbed remains of a rath (ANT 063:028) were already recorded within the Sites and Monuments Record. Ground being cleared for the construction of the new church hall uncovered a section of the infilled ditch. The ditch was 4m wide and, from the original ground surface, 2m deep. Hazelnut shell from the base of the ditch returned a radiocarbon date of AD 970 to 1030.
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