County: Wexford Site name: WEXFORD: Anne Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E065ext.
Author: Martin Reid, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 705127m, N 621550m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.335481, -6.457387
The development of government offices on the south side of Anne Street, Wexford, necessitated this assessment. The site was to have intensive piled foundations and, as it was in an area of reclaimed land towards the old shoreline, it was necessary to test for revetments or quay structures. The site was developed in two phases, and archaeological testing took place before each construction phase began. In the more westerly site (Phase 1) excavation took place during 1996 (Excavations 1996, 114).
The Phase 2 part of the development was located closer to the river than Phase 1, and therefore was likely to have been even further offshore in medieval times. One east–west test-trench was excavated in this area on 4 February 1997. The deposits consisted of riverine silts which produced pottery dating from the 17th–18th century. These were less organic deposits than were found in the Phase 1 site. No further excavation or testing was recommended.
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