County: Down Site name: Town Hall, The Square, Hillsborough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: AAP associated with Hillsborough Licence number: AE/21/048
Author: Eoin Halpin
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 724199m, N 858589m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.460594, -6.084359
The scheme consisted of the construction of 9 apartments to include agreed layout and elevation changes and associated parking at the site of the old Town Hall building, The Square, Hillsborough.
Testing took place on 1st April 2021 and showed that only the northern end of the site had the potential for archaeological deposits to survive, the southern end had suffered from extensive basementing and scarping associated with the construction of the Town Hall in the mid-1960s.
Testing further showed that immediately beneath deposits associated with the modern paving/concrete floor surfaces which existed across the northern end of the site, undisturbed glacial till was uncovered, without any intervening deposits. This indicates that the northern end of the site had been the subject of significant scarping, most likely as a result of the Town Hall construction.
Due to the northern end of the site having been significantly scarped and the southern end of the site either scarped or basemented, nothing of archaeological significance survived on the site.
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