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Antrim<br />

‘Langford Lodge’ (Gartree td.), Co. Antrim<br />

Early Medieval Settlement Enclosure.<br />

Grid Ref: J09617507 (30961/37507)<br />

SMR No. ANT 058:017<br />

Excavation Licence: N/A<br />

Excavation Duration/Year: September - October 1960.<br />

Site Director: D. M. Waterman (Historic Monuments Branch, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance).<br />

<strong>The</strong> site existed as a circular platform (24m by 25.5m in diameter, and 0.9m to 1.5m high).<br />

An ice house associated with the ruined manor house had been cut into the site in the<br />

nineteenth century.<br />

Excavation showed that the site have a multi-phase history, beginning with a Neolithic phase<br />

<strong>of</strong> occupation. <strong>The</strong> early medieval occupation occurred in two phases. In Phase I, an area<br />

approximately 22m in diameter was enclosed by a ditch (1.5m to 1.8m wide and 0.6m deep).<br />

A small – approximately 7.5m wide – square timber-posted house was discovered in the<br />

centre <strong>of</strong> this enclosure, with an associated central hearth (Fig. 31). This structure was<br />

surrounded by a shallow drainage gully. <strong>The</strong> area around the house appears to have had a<br />

cobbled surface, but elsewhere the site was un-metalled. This occupation soil contained<br />

sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware, and its nature led the excavator to interpret this as representing<br />

an animal stockyard, rather than human habitation.<br />

In Phase II the ditch was moved outwards to its present position and the interior was raised<br />

into a low platform. <strong>The</strong> enclosure appears to have formed part <strong>of</strong> the manorial gardens, and<br />

cultivation has severely truncated archaeological features from this phase. A pair <strong>of</strong> stonelined<br />

post-sockets were uncovered which presumably relate to a structure from this phase. A<br />

few sherds <strong>of</strong> souterrain ware were found in these post-sockets.<br />

Fig. 31: Plan <strong>of</strong> Phase I house at Langford Lodge, Gartree, Co. Antrim (after Waterman 1963,<br />

47).<br />

Reference:<br />

Waterman, D. M. 1963. A Neolithic and Dark Age site at Langford Lodge, Co. Antrim, Ulster<br />

Journal <strong>of</strong> Archaeology (Third Series), 26, 43–54.<br />

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