1996:406 - WEXFORD: 112 South Main Street, Wexford

Two trenches were excavated by JCB on the site of demolished buildings. A thin (20–50mm) band of rich organic midden, overlying estuarine silt and with stakes and a plank protruding from it, was identified 2.35m below the present kerb. The stakes and planks were aligned roughly north-south, possibly the remains of a house or a revetment at the edge of a stream. The midden was interleaved with lenses of sand and shell, suggesting that the area suffered from flooding. Although no datable finds were recovered from the midden it is likely to be medieval. A band of grey gritty sand covered the midden, and a series of midden and rubble deposits, which included seventeenth/eighteenth-century pottery, built up over it.

Sonas, Rathduff, Fethard