County: Down Site name: Knockinelder
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/272
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 763616m, N 851410m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.384998, -5.480919
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at 8 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. These trenches measured 10m by 2m and nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in the evaluation.
