2023:654 - 56-58 Townsend Street, Townparks, Belfast, Antrim
County: Antrim
Site name: 56-58 Townsend Street, Townparks, Belfast
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: AE/2023/046
Author: Stephen Gilmore / NAC Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: NAC Ltd, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 733140m, N 874671m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.602736, -5.939285
The archaeological watching brief was undertaken on 23 and 24 May 2023 at Townsend Street, Belfast.
Two test trenches totalling 36m were excavated. No archaeological material of any sort was uncovered within the investigation area, though the foundations of the mid-19th-century houses on Townsend Street and on Dayton Street were exposed and photographically recorded.