County: Antrim Site name: Phase 1, Weaver's Court, Belfast
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/16/178
Author: Chris Long, Gahan and Long Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 733043m, N 873388m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.591244, -5.941364
An archaeological evaluation was carried out prior to the construction of Phase 1 of a four-storey office block with associated car park and landscaping at Weavers Court, Belfast.
A total of 5 trenches were excavated using a back-acting machine fitted with a toothless bucket to the levels of naturally occurring subsoil or archaeological strata, whichever was highest. A single wall which appears to relate to the early 20th-century factory on the site was identified within Trench 5 (see plate). The wall was predominately made of machine-cut red brick, although one portion was stone and cement. It was set within naturally occurring subsoil, which was a blue-grey clay, and appears to correlate to the line of the factory wall shown on the 4th edition OS map of 1919.
No archaeological features or deposits were identified during the course of the evaluation.
7-9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast, BT5 4NE
