County: Down Site name: Cloghskelt
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/216
Author: Naomi Carver, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 722994m, N 841673m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.308974, -6.109914
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at a site off Manse Road, c. 250m west of the junction with Laird’s Road. The evaluation was requested due to the presence of a previously unrecorded standing stone within the same field as the application site. Another standing stone (DOW035–051) is located c. 50m to the south-west of the application site and to the south of the site lies a Bronze Age cemetery (DOW035–039), which was excavated in 1973.
The evaluation consisted of four mechanically excavated test-trenches ranging in length from 16m to 30m. No remains of archaeological significance were uncovered during the evaluation.
