County: Down Site name: BALLYVARLEY (4)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/15
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Field boundary
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 708706m, N 845633m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.347783, -6.327941
This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. Trial-trenching had revealed a linear ditch in the vicinity of a ploughed-down rath. This proved, on excavation, to be a post-medieval land drain, 1.12m wide by 0.24m deep, cut into the mixed glacial till subsoil and filled with loose blue/grey clay and medium-sized stones.
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