2014:433 - COMBER: Ardnavally Park, Down
County: Down
Site name: COMBER: Ardnavally Park
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW010:061
Licence number: AE/14/190E
Author: Jonathan Barkley, NAC
Author/Organisation Address: Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 746481m, N 868486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.543517, -5.736048
The aim of this project was to establish if any remains of the lost village of ‘New Comber’ (DOW010-061) still existed within the confines of the development site and to assess the risk both to development and to the remains themselves from development. It is clear that no evidence was uncovered for this 17th-century village, either in the form of existing settlement features or artefactual material. The trenching did show that large parts of the site have already been heavily disturbed, or destroyed, by more recent construction and development on the site.