County: Down Site name: High Trees, Donaghadee (Ballynoe/Town Parks)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW 003:001 Licence number: AE/19/111
Author: Stuart Alexander
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 757941m, N 879860m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.642177, -5.552982
The site is a large residential development to be constructed in several phases over a ten-year period.
This licence covers the archaeological testing within Phases 1 and 2 and two topsoil strip areas within parts of Phases 3. A large bivallate rath (DOW 003:001) is present within the centre of the site.
The test trenching within Phases 1 and 2 was carried out between 5-19 August 2019. On 24 October 2019 an area measuring approximately 10m by 20m was fully topsoil stripped to allow provision for an NIE substation (within the Phase 3 area of the development). On 22-23 June 2020 a topsoil strip measuring 7m wide by 275m long was excavated along the eastern boundary of the site in order to accommodate a storm drain (within the Phase 3 area of the development). No archaeological material was uncovered in any of the excavated trenches or topsoil strip areas.
NAC, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
