County: Wexford Site name: WEXFORD: The Faythe/Maudlinstown
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0659
Author: Anne-Marie Lennon, Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 705267m, N 620624m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.327136, -6.455624
Monitoring was undertaken of all ground disturbance associated with this housing development. The natural slope of the site was from north to south. Foundations for houses on the northern end of the site were cut into bedrock. To the south of the site a layer of soil appears to have been introduced to reclaim the land and use it as a market garden. Medieval pottery was found in association with 17th–18th- and 19th-century pottery in this layer. The likely source of this infill was the medieval town of Wexford, c. 500m to the north.
The medieval pottery comprised 29 sherds, including Ham Green B ware, Leinster cooking ware and Wexford tyreware. The pottery recovered is typical of assemblages in all areas of Anglo-Norman influence in the late 12th and 13th centuries. The wear on the medieval sherds indicates that the material had been exposed for some time.
No other archaeological features or finds were uncovered.
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