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2015:541 - SCARVA: Main Street, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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.


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