2018:786 - Market Street (Spicer's bakery site), Trim, Meath

The developers applied for planning permission to carry out development works on this site at Market Street, Trim. The works are to include demolition of some of the buildings behind the street frontage, i.e. north of the street, while the façade of the building to Market Street is to be retained. They were asked for Further Information, one of the items to be an archaeological assessment of the site. The standing buildings formed part of Spicers' bakery.
Nine trenches tested the portion of the site not covered by standing buildings.
Trench 1, closest to the buildings fronting on Market Street, produced evidence for large-scale dumping of stone and rubble with the insertion of sewerage manholes and pipes.
Trenches 2-8 showed that there was a deep layer of garden soil throughout the site, anything up to 1.3m deep in places. The underlying natural was grey/brown sandy soil containing some stone. A gritty black riverine deposit was present in the trenches closest to the river. In Trench 2 the remains of an insubstantial north-south running stone wall were interpreted as a possible property boundary wall. Excavation of Trench 4, which ran parallel with the river, had to be abandoned owing to the very large deposit of big, loose stones which were interpreted as possibly having come from the demolition of the nearby stone bridge over the river Boyne. A possible east-west-running ditch was exposed in Trench 8; it was sealed by the black garden soil and was cut into the subsoil. It was approx. 3m wide but it was not possible to establish its original depth nor the basal width. It is possible that this cut may have been one of the features of the medieval town.

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