County: Waterford Site name: WATERFORD: 10B William Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1765
Author: Daniel Noonan, for Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 661155m, N 612240m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.258473, -7.104201
Monitoring of groundworks associated with a piled foundation for a new four-storey structure was undertaken at 10B William Street, Waterford. The monitoring was carried out after the demolition of a previously recorded, three-storey, late 18th-century building. The area on which William Street is built was formerly known as Lombard’s Marsh and was first developed after 1726 (Dowling 1998, 195).
Twenty piles were excavated using an auger drilling rig. The intended excavation depth for the piles was 10m; this was achieved for almost all of the piles, and the minimum depth reached was 6m. The layers through which the rig piled were consistent for all pile-holes across the site, producing a profile of natural sediments comprising c. 4–7m of estuarine, dark grey, silty clay sitting on top of orange/brown, sandy, silty clay. All ground-beams were above the piling. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.
Reference
Dowling, D. 1998 Waterford: past and present. Waterford.
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