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Waterford<br />

1989; Scully 1990). If the wall continued parallel to Arundel Square (Site VI), it lay outside<br />

the area of excavation.<br />

Fig. 286: Location map of Sites I-VI of the excavated defences of Waterford, 1982-92 (after<br />

Hurley et al. 1997, 21).<br />

<strong>The</strong> western (outer) side of the late eleventh-century defensive bank was cut away for a<br />

width of between 2.8-3.5m to make way for the stone wall with the bulk of the excavated<br />

material being backfilled into the eastern side of the ditch, almost filling it. <strong>The</strong> wall contained<br />

a coursed stone-faced exterior with a mortared rubble core projecting above a footing of one<br />

to two courses.<br />

<strong>The</strong> outer face was well built and battered while the inner face (built against the bank) was<br />

more irregularly faced and vertical. <strong>The</strong> wall was built as a revetment against the remaining<br />

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