2011:130 - CROGHAN QUARRY, CROGHAN, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry Site name: CROGHAN QUARRY, CROGHAN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/11/007

Author: Jonathan Barkley

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 585527m, N 795771m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.911111, -8.220278

Trial trenching was carried out on the licence application area. Trial trenches were opened at 20m intervals across the width of the area and the topsoil was removed down to the subsoil. The topsoil had a maximum depth of 0.2m and came down onto sticky firm boulder clay; no archaeological artefacts or cut features were discovered during the trial trenching.

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