County: Antrim Site name: Block 12, Queen’s Road, Belfast
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW 04:501, DOW 04:503 Licence number: AE/16/105
Author: Dermot Redmond, Gahan & Long Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 734936m, N 875331m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.608194, -5.911192
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken ahead of the proposed construction of a mixed-use development on lands east of Victoria Channel and 120m west of the former Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices, Queen’s Road, Queen’s Island, Belfast.
A total of 10 test trenches were excavated using a back-acting machine fitted with a toothless bucket.
All trenches were orientated north-south, measuring 45m long and 2m wide, with a varying depth of 1.3-1.7m. The topsoil was a mid-brown silty loam, measuring between 0.45m and 1.1m in depth. It overlay a layer of reinforced concrete which was 0.2m in depth. This concrete sealed a layer of modern rubble which was a black-brown silty loam, containing pieces of metal, lumps of bitumen and fragments of mortar and concrete and directly overlay the natural subsoil, a grey brown sleetch.
No finds or features of archaeological significance were discovered within any of the trenches.
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