2020:490 - Plantation Mews, Lisburn, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Plantation Mews, Lisburn

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/19/186

Author: Christopher J. Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Derry), 150 Elmvale, Culmore, Derry BT48 8SL.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 728319m, N 863396m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.502736, -6.018768

Pre-development test trenching was carried out having been commissioned by O’Toole and Starkey on behalf of their client WGK Homes Ltd in relation to a proposed development at 60 Plantation Mews, Lisburn.  Testing was carried out across the entire development area, in line with an approved programme of works under planning reference LA05/207/0909/F.

A total of 5 trenches were excavated across the site.  Trenching revealed that topsoil overlay an orange/brown sandy subsoil and no archaeological features or deposits were uncovered.

Christopher J. Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Derry), 150 Elmvale, Culmore, Derry BT48 8SL.