County: Wexford Site name: 113 Main Street North, Wexford
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0633
Author: Emmet Stafford, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology, Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
Site type: Urban, medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 704677m, N 622200m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.341407, -6.463784
The excavation of test-pits in the rear garden of this site uncovered 0.5m or more of modern overburden and garden soils. Below this depth there was 0.4–0.6m of clays that contained quantities of medieval artefacts. At least one subsoil-cut feature was uncovered beneath these clays.
The garden’s northern boundary wall contained opes and a corbel that appeared to be of antiquity. Adjacent to this wall, above the clay layer, the remains of a stone floor were uncovered. This floor appears to be the floor of the structure represented by the north wall of the garden.
Above the floor, and throughout the rest of the site, a layer of mortar and small stones was located below the garden soils. This mortar layer may date to the destruction of the older building.
