County: Fermanagh Site name: Glendurragh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/282
Author: James McKee and Deirdre Malone, ADS Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Testing – ditch
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 617677m, N 863788m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.522190, -7.726944
The area of the proposed development lay 60m south-east of a standing stone (FER154–094) and to the immediate west of Kesh in Co. Fermanagh. Following on from a geophysical survey, nine test-trenches were excavated across magnetic anomalies identified. In general, the stratigraphic sequence of the site was characterised by topsoil up to 0.5m deep, immediately overlying undisturbed subsoil. Cultivation furrows, modern field drains and service pipe trenches were uncovered in Trenches 2–9. However, a possible archaeological feature found in the south-west corner of the site will require further investigation. The north-east/south-west-running curvilinear feature corresponded approximately to a high-resistance anomaly evident in the geophysical survey. No dating evidence was recovered from the fills of this U-shaped ditch, but the absence of modern material may suggest an early date.
