2015:541 - SCARVA: Main Street, Down
County: Down
Site name: SCARVA: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/15/02
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 706324m, N 843527m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.329373, -6.365305
An archaeological evaluation was carried out prior to the proposed construction of 8 residential dwellings on lands west of the Main Street, Scarva.
Three test trenches were excavated across the area of the site. A single layer of topsoil was removed from the trenches. This ranged in depth from 0.3-0.8m and directly overlay subsoil which was an orange/brown glacial till.
No evidence of any archaeological deposits was identified during the course of the evaluation.