2017:422 - 86 Ballydrain Road, Comber, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down Site name: 86 Ballydrain Road, Comber

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/17/54E

Author: Francis Woods / Gahan & Long Ltd

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 749446m, N 866922m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.528616, -5.691046

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken ahead of the proposed construction of a replacement dwelling with granny annex at 86 Ballydrain Road, Comber, Co. Down.
A total of three test trenches were excavated by mechanical digger fitted with a toothless bucket and under strict archaeological supervision. The depths of the trenches remained constant across the site, the trenches were excavated through a mid-brown topsoil directly onto an orange sandy clay subsoil with very occasional small stones present. Two separate field drains were seen extending east-west through trenches 2 and 3 to the east of the site. Cuts for smaller drains extending into these larger ones could also be seen extending in a north-south direction presumably as drainage for the lawn to the rear of the existing property.
No archaeological features were identified within any of the trenches.

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