County: Down Site name: Loughbrickland, Banbridge, Dromore and Hillsborough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/62
Author: Moira O’Rourke, ADS Ltd, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
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.
