County: Down Site name: CROBANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/71
Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 712027m, N 827906m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.187848, -6.283511
An evaluation was carried out at the proposed site of a house located at Crobane, Co. Down, in a field adjacent to a megalithic tomb known as the ‘giant’s grave’ (DOW047–058). Four trenches, located in the western part of the field, were excavated using a mechanical digger equipped with a toothless ‘sheugh’ bucket. Each trench measured 2m by 25m. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered.
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast
