County: Fermanagh Site name: Crievehill Quarry, Fivemiletown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/23/16
Author: Naomi Richardson/Farrimond Macmanus ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 640599m, N 847874m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.377883, -7.375085
Planning Consent has been granted for a proposed 9 hectare lateral extension in a northerly, easterly and westerly direction to the existing quarry area at Crievehill Quarry, Fivemiletown, Co. Fermanagh. The proposed lateral extensions to quarrying works at the site are to be undertaken in four distinct phases, with a fifth phase of works comprising additional sinkings within the area of the existing quarry.
Several previous phases of archaeological monitoring and evaluation works have been undertaken at the site:
• Monitoring works undertaken during 9–24 January 2014 under licence no. AE/14/002 by FarrimondMacManus Ltd, relate to an area measuring approximately 285m (north-east/south-west) x 70m within the south-east portion of the proposed development area (PDA) only (i.e. the southern portion of Phase 1, only).
• Archaeological evaluation (test-trenching) works undertaken during 14–17 June 2019 by FarrimondMacManus Ltd under archaeological Licence No. AE/19/74 throughout the remainder of the Phase 1 extension area. Twenty-three trenches (totalling approximately 1,150 linear metres of trenching) were excavated within the remainder of the Phase 1 extension area of the proposed extension to quarrying during on-site works, within an area of c.4ha or 10 acres.
• Archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping works was undertaken during 11–17 August 2020 under licence no. AE/20/002 by FarrimondMacManus Ltd, for an overburden storage area to ensure the safe working of the quarry.
During the most recent phase of archaeological works at the site, pre-development archaeological evaluation works were undertaken during 6–8 March 2023 within the remainder of the Phase 2 extension area and within the western portion of Phase 4. Thirty-three trenches (totalling approximately 900 linear metres of trenching), were excavated within the remainder of the Phase 2 extension area and within the western portion of Phase 4 of the proposed extension to quarrying during on-site works, within an area of c.2.5ha or 6 acres.
On-site evaluation works revealed glacial subsoil throughout each of the trenches and no archaeological features, remains or deposits were identified during the evaluation works.
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