County: Wexford Site name: NEW ROSS: Quayside
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0037
Author: Niall Gregory, Gregory Consultant Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 671494m, N 627180m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.391492, -6.949604
Monitoring of the redevelopment of a garage forecourt area at Shell Quayside took place between 7 January and 14 February 2005. The development was located within the recognised medieval urban zone of New Ross. The site measured 1010m2.
The groundworks within the area of the immediate garage forecourt consisted of 0.12m brick paving, 0.35m concrete underlay and 0.15m modern stone basal layer, which were truncated by deeper service pipes. The fuel tank farm had specified excavation of a 12m by 9m area around a previously piled area, with sheet piles supporting the ground around the edges of the tank farm area. It achieved a depth of 4.5m. Upon excavation, the stratigraphy consisted of 1m of pea gravel to small stone with some modern building debris, 1m of soft loose clay mixed with modern building debris of timbers, large stones, bricks and metal, 1–1.3m of grey marl with red/brown oxidised striations. Some naturally occurring (undressed) shale formed a lens beneath this layer, beneath which the marl continued until the design depth of 4.5m had been achieved. Nothing of an archaeological nature was encountered in the course of the works.
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