County: Down Site name: ARDGLASS: Hill Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 45:30 Licence number: —
Author: Mark Gardiner, Department of Archaeology, Queen’s University Belfast
Site type: Excavation- miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 755717m, N 837423m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.261903, -5.609700
A series of trenches was cut by machine to assess land close to Kings Castle, Hill Street, as part of the programme of research work in Ardglass. The land had been ploughed and ridged for potatoes. No evidence of medieval activity was found. An area of lighter clay about 0.65m in depth, containing some flint flakes and flecks of pottery, was recorded in one trench. Further trenches were cut to define its extent. It was interpreted as a colluvial deposit of localised nature, possibly infilling a gully.
