County: Down Site name: Well Road, Warrenpoint
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/49
Author: Martin Keery, Gahan & Long Ltd, 7–9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast, BT5 4NE.
Site type: Burnt-mound spreads
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715036m, N 818836m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.105720, -6.240884
Monitoring of topsoil removal took place in July 2006 before the construction of residential dwellings; two burnt-mound spreads were exposed. The larger of the spreads was located 30m east of Well Road and 25m north of the boundary with No. 29. It measured c. 7.2m north–south by 9.05m by 0.27m deep. It overlay subsoil, which consisted of compact orange stony clay. No archaeological finds were recovered from the deposits.
The second burnt-mound spread was located 0.7m south of the first, 20m north of the boundary with No. 29 Well Road. It was sub-oval in plan and measured c. 1.9m north-east/south-west by 3.55m by 0.15m deep. It consisted of compact mid-greyish-black charcoal-stained silty clay that contained a large quantity of heat-fractured and orange degraded stone.
