What is recorded here

Castle Street and Lord Edward Street now cover rectangular post and wattle rooms that measured about eighteen metres long and five and a half metres wide. People lived there from the tenth through thirteenth centuries, making combs, sharpening knives and emptying unlined cess pits full of bones and seeds. The street has replaced them, but those rooms still shape the depth beneath Dublin.

Excavations at26-29 Castle Street and 20 Lord Edward Street in 1992 uncoveredevidence for domestic habitation in the form of post and wattle structures with associated floors. Finds included stick pins, arrowheads, knives, needles and combs (Byrne 1992, 18-19). Excavations on the same site in 1993, earlier structures ranging from the 10th -13th century. They were rectangular in plan (L 18.2m, Wth 5.5m on average). A large number of cess pits were uncovered, unlined and produced a large quantity of faunal and botancial remains (Byrne, 1994, 15-16).

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