2015:522 - 87 Bryansford Road, Tollymore, Newcastle, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: 87 Bryansford Road, Tollymore, Newcastle

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/15/100

Author: Chris Long, Gahan & Long Ltd

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 736698m, N 832047m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.219056, -5.903874

A proposal was made to demolish the existing residential property at 87E Bryansford Road, Newcastle and construct an block of 6 apartments.
The evaluation concerned the retention of the planning application. To facilitate this, a single foundation trench was excavated using a back-acting machine fitted with a toothless bucket. The test trench extended roughly south-east/north-west. A single layer of topsoil was removed from the trench to a depth of 0.15m and gave way to naturally occurring subsoil which consisted of an orange/grey glacial till with occasional patches of exposed bedrock.
No evidence of any archaeological deposits was identified within the trench.

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