County: Wicklow Site name: WICKLOW: Church Street/Wentworth Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0431
Author: Dermot Nelis, IAC Ltd, for ADS Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 731212m, N 694126m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.981805, -6.045974
The development site is at the corner of Church Street and Wentworth Place, Wicklow, and within the zone of archaeological potential of the town. Recent excavations in an adjoining property by James Eogan (Excavations 1997, 202, 97E0118) identified a series of medieval pits and two shallow ditches.
Trenching was carried out by Una Cosgrave and involved the mechanical excavation of two trenches (Excavations 1998, 223). Limited archaeological deposits consisting of light brown, fine, sandy clay with occasional charcoal flecking were recorded. No datable material was recovered from this layer.
Dúchas The Heritage Service recommended archaeological monitoring of all further subsurface works. This was carried out on 15 and 16 January 1999 and revealed the same formation processes of modern rubble and gravels sealing rubble layers containing red brick as identified in the test-trenching programme. The light brown, fine, sandy clay with occasional charcoal flecking was revealed in the north-eastern corner of the site. However, as excavation for foundation trenches proceeded only to a depth of c. 0.65m in this area, only the top 50mm of this layer was exposed. As this layer was only revealed in a 1m-long east-west foundation trench, it was not possible to define fully its extent, character and condition. There would be no further disturbance caused to this layer by the development. No datable material was recovered from this layer. No further archaeological features or finds were revealed.
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