County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Augustine Street/16–17 John Street West
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0343
Author: Una Cosgrave, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Pit and Burial ground
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 714761m, N 733949m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.343311, -6.276564
Archaeological monitoring and subsequent excavation was carried out at Augustine Street, Block 1, from December 1997 for a period of nine weeks. A number of red brick-lined post-medieval pits and drains were found to overlie extended inhumations. These inhumations in turn overlay medieval pits.
A second season of archaeological excavations commenced in April 1998 and continued for twelve weeks. Post-medieval drains, possible tanning-pits, medieval pits and cobbled surfaces were identified, together with 168 extended inhumations.
The finds recovered included modern, post-medieval and medieval pottery, medieval floor tiles, flint, a wooden barrel, a possibly medieval wicker basket, animal bones, wood, shroud-pins, coins and miscellaneous iron and copper fragments.
The burial activity appears to be associated with St John the Baptist hospital site.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
