2015:511 - SLIEVE KIRK WIND FARM, Derry
County: Derry
Site name: SLIEVE KIRK WIND FARM
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/15/123
Author: Chris Long, Gahan & Long
Author/Organisation Address: 7-9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast BT5 54NE
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 645134m, N 908664m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.923657, -7.295915
Monitoring involved the removal of peat to subsoil level at 43 exploratory trial pit locations across the area of the proposed development. All mechanical excavation was undertaken with a back-acting mechanical digger. In all cases a thin veneer of peat was removed onto subsoil which in general consisted of a grey silty clay mottled with weathered bedrock. In some instances the peat was removed directly onto a dark grey schist with some visible mica and quartz. All of the trial pits were on average 1.8m wide and were 3m long.
No deposits of archaeological potential were uncovered.