2015:522 - NEWCASTLE: 87 Bryansford Road, Tollymore, Down
County: Down
Site name: NEWCASTLE: 87 Bryansford Road, Tollymore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/15/100
Author: Chris Long, Gahan & Long Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: 7-9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast BT5 4NE
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
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.