County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: Bride Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0013 ext.
Author: Una Cosgrave, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 715236m, N 733514m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.339301, -6.269594
Initial site testing was carried out by C. Newman in 1992; further testing and excavation was carried out by Beth Cassidy and R. O'Brien over two months (May and June) in 1998 under this licence. Archaeological monitoring and subsequent excavation was carried out at Bride Street, Block 2, from July 1998 for a period of seven weeks.
Testing carried out by Beth Cassidy revealed a well, together with post-medieval and medieval occupation soils.
The Block 1 excavations revealed a well containing architectural fragments, a possibly medieval stone-lined drain, metalled surfaces, large pits filled with domestic-type refuse of possibly medieval date and a possibly medieval wall running parallel to Bride Street.
The Block 2 excavations revealed a number of post-medieval red brick structures, possibly medieval clay-bonded walls, medieval pits, hearths, possible kilns and two possibly medieval wells, together with a series of medieval cobbled and metalled surfaces.
The finds recovered included modern, post-medieval and medieval pottery, medieval floor tiles, flint, architectural fragments, worked bone, animal bone, wood, shroud-pins, coins and miscellaneous iron and copper fragments.
Windsor House, 11 Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3
