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Antrim<br />

Dromore, Co. Antrim<br />

Early Medieval Raised Enclosure.<br />

Grid Ref: D04751354 (30475/41354)<br />

SMR No. ANT 027:006<br />

Excavation Licence: N/A<br />

Excavation Duration/Year: 1964.<br />

Site Director: A. E. P. Collins (Ancient Monuments Branch, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance).<br />

<strong>The</strong> site was a raised enclosure, set on a mound approximately 3m high. <strong>The</strong> site was<br />

destroyed subsequent to excavation as part <strong>of</strong> a farm improvement scheme. Excavation<br />

showed that a natural hillock had been deliberately scarped to create the enclosure mound.<br />

<strong>The</strong> top <strong>of</strong> the mound contained evidence for occupation. Postholes, pits and shallow gullies<br />

provided structural evidence, and three separate houses could be identified.<br />

House I was partially defined by a sub-circular drainage gully which enclosed ten postholes<br />

and one small pit (Fig. 24). Small sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware were recovered from the fill <strong>of</strong><br />

the pit.<br />

House II was also partially defined by a sub-circular drainage gully which enclosed six<br />

postholes and a shallow basin. A few sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware were found in the fill <strong>of</strong> the<br />

basin.<br />

House III was a stone-built structure, <strong>of</strong> rectangular form with rounded corners (Fig. 25). <strong>The</strong><br />

walls survive in places to a height <strong>of</strong> three courses. Much <strong>of</strong> the interior was paved with flat<br />

basalt slabs. A couple <strong>of</strong> sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware were the only artefacts found in<br />

association with this structure.<br />

Fig. 24: Hearths to the east <strong>of</strong> House I at Dromore, Co. Antrim (after Collins 1968, 63).<br />

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