County: Derry Site name: COLERAINE/CASTLEROCK/PORTSTEWART
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/05/59
Author: Peter Bowen, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 583097m, N 649471m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.596250, -8.249480
Monitoring of topsoil removal in advance of the construction of a new wastewater pipeline and several new pumping stations along the north coast in the vicinity of Coleraine, Co. Derry, has been ongoing since June 2005. Previous trial-trenching had revealed possible archaeological deposits at two locations within the pipeline corridor (see Nos 304 and 308, AE/05/03 and AE/05/04, below) which are to be investigated once the mainline stripping has been extended into both areas. During the current works on the site there have been no further deposits uncovered, although work is currently continuing.
