2016:242 - 55 Movilla Road, Newtownabbey, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: 55 Movilla Road, Newtownabbey

Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: AE/16/45E

Author: Jonathan Barkley

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 750266m, N 874476m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.596185, -5.674540

Monitored test trenching was carried out on 14 March 2016. The initial trench layout recommended within the Archaeological BH3 Evaluation Report (NAC Document No. 030216a) was a series of 11 test trenches at the western and eastern ends of the proposed development site. The response to the initial test trenching strategy from the Planning Response Team (DOE: HMU) dated 01/06/2016 noted that the eastern portion of the site had been previously test trenched under another planning application so the trenches in this area were not required (SM 11/1/DOW 6:13 (sc)). They did request a further trench in the area of the archaeological excavations carried out in the 1980s to determine the location and extent of those investigations.

Subsequent to this, the test trenching strategy was amended and a total of five test trenches were excavated. Trenches 1 to 3 were around 40m in length, Trench 2 around 30m in length and Trench 5 around 40m in length. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered within any of these test trenches.

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