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

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Ballydownfine, Glenmona, Glen Road, Belfast

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/19/134

Author: Gavin Donaghy

Site type: Bronze Age burnt mound

Period/Dating:

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.

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