County: Down Site name: COMBER: 26–30 The Square
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/03/103
Author: Sarah Nicol, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Building and Well
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 745988m, N 868992m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.548202, -5.743410
Monitoring on-site revealed 18th-century garden features; on excavation, the foundations of a Georgian building that stood for no more than 30 years were revealed. In addition to the associated garden features, there was evidence for a possible walled garden. Three wells were found, one of which, given its dimensions, might potentially have been associated with the site of a Cistercian abbey (SMR 10:26) located just beyond the eastern boundary of the development site.
Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast BT12 7DY
