County: Wexford Site name: WEXFORD: Trimmer’s Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 37:32 Licence number: 00E0336
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 704718m, N 621701m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.336916, -6.463338
The site is on a narrow lane leading eastwards from Selskar Street. The proposed development is for office units, to be located in the garden area of a house fronting onto Monck Street. Proposed foundations are of the raft type, and the pre-development test-trenching was to the level of proposed ground disturbance or a depth of 0.7m below the existing ground level. The upper levels of stratigraphy included modern garden soil (0.2–0.4m thick) over a 0.2–0.5m-thick layer of modern rubble. One trench adjacent to the existing street-fronting house uncovered the upper level of a shell midden with sherds of earthenware and one sherd of North Devon sgraffito ware. The upper coverstone of a stone drain was also exposed in this test-trench.
