County: Down Site name: Knockinelder
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/234
Author: Brian Sloan, 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 566530m, N 571749m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.896892, -8.486316
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.
