2006:538 - LOUGHBRICKLAND, BANBRIDGE, DROMORE AND HILLSBOROUGH, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: LOUGHBRICKLAND, BANBRIDGE, DROMORE AND HILLSBOROUGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/62

Author: Moira O’Rourke, ADS Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 710347m, N 842133m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.316000, -6.304000

Testing was required in advance of A1 road works at junctions with Hillsborough, Dromore, Banbridge and Loughbrickland, Co. Down. Two trenches were placed at each of the four junction locations. No archaeological deposits were uncovered in any of the trenches opened at Dromore, Banbridge or Loughbrickland. A humic, peat-like deposit was uncovered at the Hillsborough junction. It is unclear if this deposit sealed an archaeological horizon and this will require further investigation. No artefacts were recovered during testing at any of the four locations.

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