County: Antrim Site name: Queen’s Square, Belfast
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/195
Author: Deirdre Malone, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Urban, post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 733930m, N 875822m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.612863, -5.926529
Monitoring was undertaken at the site of a proposed erection of a 3m-high aluminium sculpture 4m north of the Albert Memorial, Queens Square, Belfast, which is part of the ongoing redevelopment of the area by the Laganside Corporation. A 2.5m-wide foundation trench was mechanically excavated to formation level, located at a depth of 0.75m below the current ground surface. Other than a number of 20th-century surfaces and a modern drain cut, there were no archaeological deposits uncovered within the trench.
