County: Down Site name: KNOCKINELDER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/234
Author: Brian Sloan, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 763432m, N 851226m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.383398, -5.483855
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at 2 Kearney Road, Knockinelder, Portaferry, Co. Down, in response to a planning application for the construction of a replacement dwelling. Two cist burials (DOW032–024 and DOW032–035) are located in the immediate vicinity of the proposed development.
Two test-trenches were mechanically excavated to the surface of the natural subsoil. The trenches measured 10m by 2m and proved that a degree of modern disturbance had occurred on site. Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in either of the trenches.
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN
