2015:378 - NEWTOWNARDS: NS20 Housing, Movilla Road (Ballyalicock), BH3 testing, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down

Site name: NEWTOWNARDS: NS20 Housing, Movilla Road (Ballyalicock), BH3 testing

Sites and Monuments Record No.: IHR 02640:000:00

Licence number: AE/15/120E

Author: Colin Dunlop, NAC

Author/Organisation Address: Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY

Site type: Quarry

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

ITM: E 751346m, N 875002m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.600585, -5.657571

The quarry pit from a slate quarry (IHR 02640:000:00) which had been identified on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map (1834) was recorded. As the development site was pre-planning it was not excavated at this time.