County: Antrim Site name: St. Patrick’s Church, 181 Glenshesk Road, Glebe Armoy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT013:010 Licence number: AE/20/057
Author: Jonathan Barkley
Site type: Early medieval church site
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 707691m, N 933266m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.135027, -6.311110
A BH3 evaluation was undertaken on the 28th September 2020. Two areas of full topsoil strip (Area 1 and Area 2) were undertaken in advance of the possible construction of a new toilet block and extended car parking area adjacent to the site of the early medieval round tower and church at Armoy, Co. Antrim.
Archaeological features were identified within Area 2. These comprised a section of large linear feature, potentially the continuation of a ditch identified during previous archaeologically works on the site, and two narrow linear features. Sherds of early medieval Souterrain Ware and a sherd of English medieval pottery were recovered from these features.
The features within Area 2 were covered with geotextile and will be preserved in situ beneath the new carpark.
A section of stone wall was identified within Area 1. This wall originally formed part of an earlier rectory building and was recorded on the 3rd edition Ordnance Survey map of c.1900.
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