County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: 66 Meagher's Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0479
Author: Sarah McCutcheon
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 660652m, N 612640m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.262123, -7.111495
Planning permission was approved for redevelopment at 66 Meagher’s Quay, Waterford, with an archaeological condition attached for supervision of all excavation works on the site. This work commenced on 15 December 1997, and all subsurface site works were completed by 23 January 1998.
The site lies within the zone of archaeological significance as defined by the Urban Archaeological Survey (1988). It lies to the west of Barron Strand Street and therefore is outside the walled medieval city. The city wall extends roughly east–west beyond the site to the south.
The first subsurface works involved the grubbing up of the foundations of the demolished walls. No archaeological strata were uncovered or observed during the course of this work. The remainder of the site work consisted of reducing the ground level to 2.67m OD over the whole area, except for the south-eastern strip which is intended to be a yard. The excavation was c. 1.1m below the existing ground level.
The material removed consisted of a loose grey silt which was mixed with rubble, mortar, some slate and red brick. A dark grey fine-grained silt with flecks of mortar and red brick fragments lay at the base of the excavation. Sherds of 17th/18th-century western English black-glazed earthenware were recovered from this basal layer.
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