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Excavations of Prehistoric Settlement at Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland 2003
Colin Dunlop and Peter Woodman
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In 2002-2003, the construction of a new road to bypass the village of Toomebridge, Co Antrim, through which the main Belfast to Derry Road (A6) passed, was commenced by Roads Service; an Agency within the Department of Regional Development. As part of the overall planning permission for the Toomebridge Bypass, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) raised a requirement for archaeological mitigation. Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd was appointed to undertake the archaeological excavation of this site. In the course of topsoil stripping a small drumlin on part of the road scheme 2,100 flint artefacts were uncovered. While the majority (approximately 70%) of these dated from the Late Mesolithic, the Earlier Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods were also represented. Archaeology was uncovered on the western side of the drumlin. It formed 14 discrete areas (Features 1-14). The features were for the most part structures and ranged in date from the Mid-Mesolithic (Features 1-4), through the Late Mesolithic (Features 5-8), the Bronze Age (Features 9-11), and the late Bronze Age or Iron Age (Feature 13) and the 19th to 20th centuries (Feature 14).
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ABSTRACT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 2. THE GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND OF THE EXCAVATION AREA
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CHAPTER 3. LATER AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES & THE POTENTIAL TRUNCATION OF THE ARCAHEOLOGY
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CHAPTER 4. RESULTS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
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CHAPTER 5. PROFESSOR PETER WOODMAN DISCUSSES THE LITHIC ASSEMBLAGE
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CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSIONS
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APPENDIX 1. TOOME CERAMIC ASSEMBLAGE
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APPENDIX 2. ARCHAEOBOTANICAL ANALYSIS
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APPENDIX 3. RADIOCARBON DATES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Published: 2015
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407322926 (ebook)
- 9781407313498 (paperback)
BAR Number: B609