County: Down Site name: 1 Banbridge Road, Coolnacran, Loughbrickland
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW 034:127 Licence number: AE/16/94
Author: Chris Long, Gahan an Long Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 710357m, N 842119m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.315865, -6.303847
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken prior to the proposed construction of a small residential development on lands at 1 Banbridge Road, Loughbrickland. The proposed development site is located within the historic core of Loughbrickland (DOW 034:127).
Monitoring of the foundations of the houses was conducted using a back-acting machine fitted with a toothless bucket to the levels of naturally occurring subsoil or archaeological strata, whichever was highest.
The topsoil across the site was a dark brown silty loam, 0.45m deep in the north of the site, and ranging in depth from 0.05-0.10m deep in the south of the site. In the south of the site, the topsoil was underlain by 0.2-0.3m of modern rubble, a layer which is not present in the northern end of the site. This overlay the naturally occurring subsoil, an orange-grey clay. No archaeological deposits were identified during the course of the monitoring.
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