2019:795 - BELFAST: Ballydownfine, Glenmona, Glen Road, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim

Site name: BELFAST: Ballydownfine, Glenmona, Glen Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/19/134

Author: Gavin Donaghy, NAC Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY

Site type: Burnt mound

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 729572m, N 872326m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.582606, -5.995506

The archaeological site at Glenmona consisted of a truncated burnt mound and rectangular trough.

The radiocarbon dates indicate that this burnt mound dated to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, with an Early Bronze Age date (2347–2190 cal. BC) being returned from the trough and a Middle Bronze Age date (1683–1521 cal. BC) from the burnt spread.