County: Derry Site name: QUEEN STREET, COLERAINE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LDY007-091 Licence number: AE/11/68
Author: David Kilner and Kara Ward
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 684675m, N 932458m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.132236, -6.672186
The proposed development consisted of the construction of a new sewerage scheme in Queen Street, Coleraine. This scheme lay within an archaeologically sensitive area, with fifteen recorded archaeological sites within a 1km radius. Additionally, the proposed scheme was located within the boundaries of one of these sites, the historic settlement of Coleraine (LDY007-091).
Groundworks associated with the scheme took place in two phases. The first phase involved monitoring of the excavation of the on-line tank sewer pipe, storm pipe and associated CSO chamber and manholes and was carried out between May and June 2011. Five areas of archaeological potential were uncovered. Full investigation of these features uncovered three rubbish pits, partial remains of a red brick culvert, a small drainage ditch and a small post-hole, all of which were 19th-century in origin.
Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed during Phase 2 monitoring of the final 4m of excavations relating to the on-line tank sewer, undertaken in September 2011. This revealed substantial modern disturbance in the form of an existing sewerage pipe.
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