County: Dublin Site name: DUBLIN: St Mary's Abbey/Strand Street Little
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0002
Author: Helen Keogh
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 715245m, N 734365m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.346942, -6.269150
Excavation revealed classic base plate remains for a 13th-century oak timber revetment. The timbers are located approximately along the early northshoreline just north of present-day Ormond Quay. Three species of wood were identified: oak, ash and blackthorn.
The twelve oak base plates were in a good state of preservation and were relatively uniform in size and appearance. They extended in a north-east/southwest direction, with the north-east end truncated by later foundations. The timbers appear to extend further southwards under the Strand Street Little frontage. A one-course blackstone-built access 'platform' extended along the timbers at the Strand Street Little end; it measured 9m by 2.3m wide.
There was little evidence for any extensive reclamation, with the shallow silt deposits appearing to have built up naturally on the west side of the Phase 4 timbers from which the relatively few (73), mainly post-medieval, pottery sherds were retrieved. One medieval leather shoe fragment was retrieved from underneath one of the base plate timbers.
11 Norseman Place, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7
