2014:399 - Killinchy Street, Comber, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: Killinchy Street, Comber

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/14/086

Author: Ciara MacManus

Site type: Modern

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 745922m, N 869135m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.549507, -5.744352

Monitoring of foundation trench excavation in advance of development at the site of a former Bus Depot, Killinchy Street, Comber was carried out over a period of 7 days between August – September 2014. Excavation of foundations revealed that the site consisted largely of modern overburden overlying demolition rubble to a depth of between 0.8–1m which lay directly on top of a natural gravel subsoil. No archaeological features were noted during monitoring of ground works at the site.

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