2017:660 - DUBLIN: 5-6 John's Lane West, Dublin

Excavation was undertaken at 5–6 John’s Lane West between 22 March and 12 April 2017 under Licence 16E0431 ext. The excavation identified two medieval ditches, 29 inhumation burials in addition to disarticulated human skeletal remains from a number of contexts and the remnants of a 19th-century building fronting onto John’s Lane West. The dominant form of burial was in an extended supine position orientated west–east, but a number of north–south burials were also noted. The burials are believed to have been associated with an ecclesiastical site, the Priory and Hospital of St John the Baptist, which was located on the present-day site of the Church of St Augustine and St John. The hospital was run by the religious order the Frates Cruciferi (friars of the cross or crutched friars), an order of St Augustine canons who operated exclusively as hospitallers in Ireland.