County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: 28–30 Westland Row (rear)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0085
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 716459m, N 733892m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342428, -6.251089
Four trenches tested the area of the final phase of the East End development for TCD located at the back of Westland Row at its junction with Lincoln Place. This was an area of land redamation in the eighteenth/nineteenth century. The trenches revealed a stratigraphy of dumped rubble overlying black garden soil, which in turn overlay more building rubble. This stratigraphy was 3.5–4m deep and bottomed out on to estuarine grey and blue silts. Nothing of archaeological interest was observed.
All of this fill was removed during the construction phase. During removal a deposit of human bone was disturbed in a layer with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pottery. The bones had been broken or cut in the past. A medical school had stood on this site in the seventeenth/eighteenth century and it was felt that the bones had been deposited after use in anatomy classes in the school.
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