County: Down Site name: Carnasure, Killinchy Road, Comber
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/20/099
Author: Stuart Alexander
Site type: Multi-period, Neolithic - post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 746232m, N 868290m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.541829, -5.739990
Archaeological test trenching, topsoil stripping and excavation of archaeological features were undertaken at the site known as Killinchy Road, Comber, situated on the southern edge of the modern village of Comber, County Down.
Four main areas of archaeology were identified, Areas A, B, C and D. Features uncovered across the site include:
• a probable prehistoric roundhouse;
• three possible working areas of prehistoric date;
• a disturbed cist grave likely Bronze Age in date;
• two possible prehistoric cremations;
• a large east to west-running ditch possibly related to the 17th-century plantation village of New Comber;
• the remains of a stream culverted sometime between the publication of the 1st and 2nd edition Ordnance Survey maps;
• around 180 other pits and features of indeterminate date were also recorded and excavated.
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