2023:610 - The Keep - 13 to 25, Castle Lane, Belfast, Antrim
County: Antrim
Site name: The Keep - 13 to 25, Castle Lane, Belfast
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT061:005
Licence number: AE/2022/127
Author: Jonathan Barkley
Author/Organisation Address: NAC Ltd, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: Site of Castle
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 733833m, N 874264m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.598898, -5.928752
Intermittent periods of archaeological watching brief were undertaken between December 2022 and September 2023 at 13 to 25 Castle Place Belfast. The foundations for three lift shafts and various services as well as locations for new ground beams and flooring were monitored. No archaeological material of any sort was uncovered within the investigation area, and no further evidence for the site of the original Belfast Castle was encountered.