County: Antrim Site name: BELFAST: Callendar Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/03/115
Author: Norman Crothers, ADS Ltd.
Site type: House - 19th century
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 733832m, N 874206m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.598378, -5.928781
Monitoring was conducted on the site of a proposed two-storey retail unit at No. 4 Callendar Street, Belfast. Until recently the site was occupied by a pub, the Bodega Bar.
The assessment was carried out from 22 October to 1 November 2003. The existing building, with the exception of a flying freehold to the rear of the site, was demolished down to the ground-floor slab and the rubble removed from site.
On removal of the floor slabs and underlying concrete, a single trench, 2m wide, was opened along the length of the site using a mechanical excavator fitted with a flat-bottomed, toothless bucket, to determine the presence or absence of archaeological deposits associated with the 13th- to 18th-century Belfast Castle and its gardens.
The only remains uncovered were the foundations of the Bodega Bar and the foundations of the smaller earlier building on the site. This earlier building was also a bar and was built in 1849. Very few artefacts were recovered and none of these is earlier than the early 19th century.
Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ
