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Antrim<br />

Killealy, Co. Antrim<br />

Early Medieval Raised Enclosure<br />

Grid Ref: J16338065 (31633/38065)<br />

SMR No. ANT 055:074<br />

Excavation Licence: N/A<br />

Excavation Duration/Year: 1970.<br />

Site Director: A.E.T. Harper (Historic Monuments Branch, Department <strong>of</strong><br />

Environment).<br />

This site was an enclosure with a raised interior, surrounded by two ditches and two banks. It<br />

was subsequently destroyed by work at Aldergrove airport. A number <strong>of</strong> occupation phases<br />

were identified on the site.<br />

Phase 1: Occupation was first established on a raised peat platform - whether or not this peat<br />

was natural, or deliberately placed in position is not yet clear: there is no peat on the<br />

immediately surrounding land and none was located either under the banks or in the bottoms<br />

<strong>of</strong> the ditches. <strong>The</strong> remains <strong>of</strong> wooden houses, and hearths were found. This occupation<br />

layer yielded no pottery but produced a single-sided bone comb, and a dumb-bell bead. [UB-<br />

536; UB-537; UB-538; UB-539; UB-541; UB-545]<br />

Phase 2: A layer <strong>of</strong> peat 0.10m thick separated this phase from the earliest one. From this<br />

later occupation which was marked by at least four hearths, and a possible house site, sherds<br />

<strong>of</strong> souterrain ware were recovered, as well as two bronze pins, a loom weight and several<br />

bones. [UB-540; UB-542]<br />

Phase 3: <strong>The</strong> final occupation layer. A third bronze pin was the major find in this phase. [UB-<br />

544].<br />

(No plans were available for this site)<br />

Radiocarbon Dates<br />

(PJ Reimer, MGL Baillie, E Bard, A Bayliss, JW Beck, C Bertrand, PG Blackwell, CE Buck, G Burr, KB Cutler, PE Damon,<br />

RL Edwards, RG Fairbanks, M Friedrich, TP Guilderson, KA Hughen, B Kromer, FG McCormac, S Manning, C Bronk<br />

Ramsey, RW Reimer, S Remmele, JR Southon, M Stuiver, S Talamo, FW Taylor, J van der Plicht, and CE<br />

Weyhenmeyer (2004), Radiocarbon 46:1029-1058).<br />

Sample No. Context<br />

14 C Date Cal. 2 Σ<br />

UB-536 SE corner <strong>of</strong> trench 1635±65 A.D. 255-559<br />

UB-537<br />

Phase 1 occupation<br />

surface<br />

1470±45 A.D. 441-455;<br />

A.D. 460-484;<br />

A.D. 533-656<br />

UB-538 Wood- Phase 1 1600±65 A.D. 261-280;<br />

A.D. 325-601<br />

UB-539 Charcoal- base <strong>of</strong> 1540±65 A.D. 401-643<br />

hearth<br />

UB-540 Phase 2 hearth 1385±65 A.D. 544-774<br />

UB-541<br />

Hearth & Surround- 1560±35 A.D. 419-574<br />

Phase 1<br />

UB-542 Hearth A 1345±65 A.D. 617-772<br />

UB-544 P4 Layer 3- Hearth 1230±50 A.D. 669-894;<br />

A.D. 928-933<br />

UB-545 Oak Doorpost 1395±40 A.D. 574-683<br />

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