County: Down Site name: 171 SCRABO ROAD, NEWTOWNARDS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/11/030E
Author: Colin Dunlop
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 747854m, N 873097m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.584512, -5.712527
Four test trenches were excavated from north to south across the site. Owing to the nature of the stone-packed upper fill it was deemed necessary to use a toothed bucket rather than a toothless one. The thickness of this redeposited material above the red sandy clay subsoil varied across the site, ranging from c. 2m in the western end of Trench 4 to less than 1m in the eastern portion of all trenches. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered within any of the trenches; indeed, no artefacts or modern pottery, of any kind, were uncovered during trenching.
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