County: Down Site name: Ballygoskin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW024–037 Licence number: AE/06/045
Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 721015m, N 853260m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.413510, -6.135608
An evaluation was carried out at the site of a house extension located at Ballygoskin, Killyleagh, Co. Down. Two trenches were excavated as part of the evaluation procedure, an area of c. 60 m2, using a mechanical digger equipped with a toothless ‘sheugh’ bucket. Each trench measured 2m by 15m and ran north-west to south-east.
In both trenches the topsoil was a mid-brown soft, humus-rich loam, which was up to c. 0.4m deep. The topsoil sat directly above the subsoil, a pink/orange clay with some stones. At the extreme south-east end of Trench 1 was a cut containing a water pipe running into a modern garden feature. No archaeological artefacts or features were found during the excavation of either trench.
