County: Down Site name: Forth Road/Rathmore/Clonallon Road, Warrenpoint
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW 054:002 Licence number: AE/15/91E
Author: David Kilner, Gahan & Long
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714695m, N 818942m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.106756, -6.246053
An archaeological evaluation was carried out prior to the proposed construction of 10 dwellings on lands to the rear of Nos 13, 15 and 17 Forth Road and 10m north-west of Nos 7 and 13 Rathmore Road, Clonallon Road, Warrenpoint. The site is located on land adjacent to DOW 054:002, which is described in the SMR as a tree ring, a designed landscape feature of the 18th to 19th century.
Eight test trenches were excavated by a mechanical digger fitted with a toothless bucket. Each trench was located either across the footprint of a proposed dwelling or along access roads. All trenches measured approximately 1.8m wide and were excavated to glacial subsoil. The topsoil on the site, which was found to be between 0.3m – 0.75m in thickness, was a loose, friable, dark brown loam while the subsoil was a mid orange stony sandy clay.
No archaeological deposits were uncovered on the site.
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