2021:384 - Belfast Transport Hub, Belfast, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Belfast Transport Hub, Belfast

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/20/110

Author: Jonathan Barkley

Site type: 19th-century railway turntable

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 733079m, N 873762m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.594590, -5.940640

Archaeologically monitored excavation was undertaken for a new culvert for the Blackstaff River, prior to the construction of the new Belfast Transport Hub.

Intermittent monitoring took place over a 10-month period between October 2020 and July 2021.

Other than a railway turntable dating to the late 19th century, nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered during the course of the watching brief.

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