2015:312 - A31 Borrow Pit, Killyneese, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry Site name: A31 Borrow Pit, Killyneese

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/15/118

Author: James McKee

Site type: Prehistoric

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 691913m, N 892150m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.768913, -6.571617

Following on from the excavations along the A31 Magherafelt Bypass, the remainder of the field where the site of Killyneese 1 was excavated (License Ref.: AE/15/31) was selected for cut and fill works for the road scheme. This borrow pit was located along the eastern edge of Killyneese 1 and comprised a small cncentration of features, including two U-shaped gullies to the north and a larger concentration of small pits and post-holes to the south. While there is no clear evidence for a traditional prehistoric structure, the artefactual assemblage including flint fragments and tools, sherds of pottery (provisionally dated to the Neolithic) and possibe hammer stones, are clear indicators of settlement.

Post-excavation analysis had yet to begin at the time of writing.

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