1980-84:0089 - NEWTOWNARDS: Corporation North td, Court Street, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: NEWTOWNARDS: Corporation North td, Court Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number:

Author: N.F. Brannon, DoE

Site type: House - 17th century

Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)

ITM: E 749473m, N 874720m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.598611, -5.686677

This was a test excavation in a proposed development area to the N. of the friary. Below an 18th-century layer, possibly resulting from the ‘landscaping’ of the town, there was evidence of earlier (timber?) buildings in the form of roofing slates and stone-filled foundation trenches overlying thin medieval deposits containing pottery.