2006:511 - Drumnabreeze, Down

This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. This site consisted of four pits and two post-medieval features. The first feature was an irregular, sub-rounded pit, which measured 2m north–south by 1.2m by 0.3m deep and had a basal fill of mid-grey silt overlain by dark-greyish-black clay with much charcoal below compact orangey-brown sandy clay. The second pit measured 0.2m north–south by 0.3m by 0.07m deep and was filled with dark-grey silty clay with occasional charcoal flecking. This pit had been cut on its eastern edge by a larger sub-oval pit that measured 0.35m north–south by 0.6m by 0.25m deep. Its basal fill was mid-greyish-brown silty clay with occasional small stones below black silty sand with frequent charcoal, which in turn was overlain by mid-grey silty clay with occasional charcoal flecks. The final pit, which measured 1.6m east–west by 0.3m deep, had a basal fill of mid-grey silty clay with frequent charcoal, overlain by mid-grey silty clay with occasional small stones, below mid-grey silty clay. This pit had been cut by a modern field drain that extended across the working width and had in turn been cut by an oval pit, which measured 0.95m north–south by 0.4m by 0.12m deep.