2010:199 - CLOUGH, Down
County: Down
Site name: CLOUGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/09/204
Author: Declan P. Hurl, Amey Consulting Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 740790m, N 840205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.291202, -5.837346
A planning application to construct a care facility off Main Street, Clough, required testing, as the site was located less than 100m to the south of the state care motte and bailey/tower-house complex of Clough Castle (DOW037–060).
The two parallel test-trenches measured 30m x 2m. The only features uncovered, including a path and wall foundations, related to a 19th-century formal garden which had occupied the site; artifacts consisted of ceramics from the same period.