County: Down Site name: THE KEMP STONES, Greengraves
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Brian B. Williams, Historic Monuments and Buildings Branch, DOE(NI)
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 744420m, N 873596m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.589988, -5.765357
There is an intact portal tomb built of basalt boulders situated 2km east of Dundonald (A.S.C.D. 1966, 80, fig. 48, plate 2). A field boundary running north from the site was removed revealing an upright stone which was considered to be perhaps part of the original structure. A small excavation was undertaken by Historic Monuments and buildings branch on 17-18 September 1987. Excavation showed that the stone was set in modern topsoil and no sockets or other evidence was found to indicate prehistoric activity. An area of cobbling on the east side and parallel with the removed boundary was overlain and underlain by modern pottery. The cobbling on was almost certainly the surface of an abandoned lane.
