County: Down Site name: DONAGHADEE ROAD, GROOMSPORT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/113
Author: Tim Stevens, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 754118m, N 883293m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.674186, -5.610338
Test-trenching was carried out at this 0.5ha housing development site east of Groomsport on the Co. Down coast. Despite the potential for archaeological remains, none were noted at the site, and the trenches revealed a sequence of landscaped glacial till and dune deposits.