2012:177 - DRUMBO: Drumbo Primary School, No. 4 Back Road, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down

Site name: DRUMBO: Drumbo Primary School, No. 4 Back Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/12/138

Author: Vincent McClorey, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.

Site type: Linear earthwork

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 732170m, N 864905m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.515301, -5.958678

Testing was carried out in advance of the construction of two detached houses, on the former site of Drumbo school, due to its proximity to an ecclesiastical site (DOW009-044). Five trenches were excavated which indicated that ground reduction had been carried out across the majority of the site in relation to the construction of the primary school. A 19th-century linear feature was identified in one trench but nothing else of archaeological interest was identified.