DISCOVERIES…the Drumclay crannog site
A GOVERNMENT department has pledged £500,000 towards the Drumclay Crannog site which could attract public exhibitions and postgraduate studies of the material found.
The Drumclay site and its discoveries could also be earmarked as a tourist attraction after an MLA highlighted its potential for the project to generate “considerable” tourism in the North in the future, particularly Fermanagh.
The Department of Regional Development is to roll out the scheme over the next three years and has committed the funding towards the post-excavation process.
The crannog lay in the path of the new A32 Cherrymount link road in Enniskillen and the excavation process took ten months to complete.
While a number of archaeologists have been drafted in to help carry out the post-excavation process, it is believed that the NIEA (Northern Ireland Environment Agency) is considering expanding the process to a project which could include several post-graduate studies and public exhibitions.
A spokesman for the Department of Environment said: “The next stages of the Drumclay excavation would involve analysis of the material found through to promoting the discoveries to the public.
“This will involve securing necessary funding and we are not at that stage yet so there is nothing to announce at present.
“Consideration is being given to a project subject to appropriate funding to study the remains recovered from the site.”
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