County: Armagh Site name: SHEAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/12/35E
Author: Cia McConway and Peter Bowen
Site type: NO ARCHEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 701260m, N 815808m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.081415, -6.452475
Testing was undertaken having been commissioned by RPP Architects on behalf of their client, Fold Housing Association, on a proposed development at the former fortified PSNI Station and Army Helicopter Base on School Road in Forkhill, Co. Armagh. It is proposed to construct, in phases, a series of residential dwelling across the site. The current phase of testing related to Phase 1 of the development only.
A series of four test trenches were excavated across the area of Phase 1. These revealed that there were areas of recent disturbance, most probably relating to the former use of the site by security forces across the area. No archaeological deposits were uncovered within the area of Phase 1 of the proposed development.
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