The Merchant Hotel

Located within the historic core of Belfast, Gahan and Long carried out an excavation of an 18th century streetscape prior to the construction of the extension to Belfast’s Merchant Hotel. This excavation identified the remains of house plots from one of the cities original street and led the recovery of a wide variety of artefacts.

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