2013:488 - Baileys New Street, Waterford, Waterford

In advance of urban renewal in the oldest part of the walled town, several strip trenches were excavated by engineers to establish the location of existing services to further inform the design element of the upgrade of the services in the apex of the Viking triangle.

The excavations did not extend below the level of existing disturbance caused by insertion of the various services. In one trench at the junction of Baileys New Street and Parade Quay, a stone surface was recorded. This was considered at the time, because of its location on the line of the quay-fronting buildings, to be the remains of the town wall. The fill immediately overlying the masonry contained 17^th-18^th-century gravel-tempered pottery (the town wall in this quay-fronting area was demolished in the 17^th century). However, subsequent monitoring work in the area by IAC (E4487) further exposed the masonry as a possible road surface. Elsewhere, in Cathedral Square, some disarticulated human bone was identified at a depth of 1.3m below the modern surface. This is likely re-buried following the building of the later cathedral in the late 18^th century.

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