2022:825 - Manse Road to Main Street, Ballycarry, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Manse Road to Main Street, Ballycarry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/2022/085

Author: Katy McMonagle

Site type: Bronze Age cremation / early medieval corn kiln

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 744496m, N 893716m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.770604, -5.754238

The excavation at Manse Road to Main Road, Ballycarry uncovered evidence of occupation and activity within the site from the Late Bronze Age until the post-medieval period.

Archaeology uncovered included a Bronze Age Ring ditch and a Late Bronze Age cremation, dated to 1109-923 BC.

An Early Medieval corn-drying kiln was dated to AD 596-656, and contained kiln furniture and highly fragmented and burnt Souterrain Ware pottery.

A rare late medieval/early post-medieval house was radiocarbon dated to between 1459-1632 AD.

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