Reflecting on the salt works excavation at Ballycastle Bay
The salt works on the North Antrim coast are first mentioned in the will of Randal McDonnell in 1629. Two sites are marked with remarkable accuracy on Petty’s Down Survey […]
The salt works on the North Antrim coast are first mentioned in the will of Randal McDonnell in 1629. Two sites are marked with remarkable accuracy on Petty’s Down Survey […]
Check out our ‘live’ progress from the Ballycastle Salt works dig at YouTube via 360 Productions! Also in our final week we were visited by Colin Williams photography with their […]
Week four was the last week of excavation on the Ballyreagh site as we removed the last few strata to reveal the natural subsoil. The final clay-like layer was the […]
Week 2 of the dig finished with finally defining the limits of our dry-stone building, and it’s fairly modest at c.4x4m internally. The walls are double-boulder with rubble infill and […]
Documentary and cartographic sources led to the discovery of an early ‘bucket pot’ (rock-cut seawater reservoir for salt-making) at Ballyreagh. Equally, the efforts of the late Danny McGill, whose passion […]
End of week 1 and time to catch our breath – site preparation was akin to a Siberian gulag this week (minus the snow thank God!) – in particular the […]
The first day of the Ballycastle excavations aspect of the project kicked off today with an assessment of site access. Clearance work was needed to make the 2km trek to […]