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Waterford<br />

considerable assemblage of imported pottery (Hurley 1997g, 899). <strong>The</strong>re was a notable<br />

scarcity of Scandinavian coins recovered in the excavations.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Waterford excavations produced a considerable quantity of animal bone dating from the<br />

mid-eleventh century (McCormick 1997, 819). <strong>The</strong> bone assemblage was dominated by the<br />

three principal domesticates- cattle, sheep/goat and pig- but also included horse, dog, cat<br />

and wild animals- red and roe deer, hare, hedgehog, wolf, wild pig, seal, cetacean, otter and<br />

possible fox.<br />

Field crops including oats, hulled barley, bread-wheat, wheat, rye and possibly flax as well as<br />

wild foodstuffs- fruits and berries- dominated the archaeobotanical evidence (Tierney 1997,<br />

888-93).<br />

Other important artefacts from the Waterford excavations included a twelfth century<br />

decorated kite-brooch, twelfth century copper-alloy dog collar band, stone lamps, vast<br />

quantity of metal stick and dress pins and iron and metal buckles. Various domestic artefacts<br />

included barrel-padlock keys, fragments of bowls, pot-hangers, pricket candle-stick, rush-light<br />

holders, mounts, iron hammers, iron axes, iron knives and metal tweezers, wooden spatula<br />

and wooden gaming-pieces. Horse equipment such as shoes, spurs, stirrups, links and cheekpieces<br />

and leather harnesses were also recovered as were a variety of military artefactsarrowheads,<br />

arrow-shaft and bow-staves and decorated leather sheaths and scabbards<br />

(Hurley 1997f, 736-42).<br />

References:<br />

Barry, T. B. 1997. Waterford: a historical Introduction, in M. F. Hurley, O. M. B. Scully & S. W.<br />

J. McCutcheon (eds.) Late Viking age and medieval Waterford: Excavations 1986-1992<br />

/Maurice F. Hurley, Orla M.B. Scully with Sarah W.J. McCutcheon; based on excavations and<br />

stratigraphic reports by Andrew S.R. Gittins ... [et al.]; editors: Terry Barry, Rose M. Cleary<br />

and Maurice F. Hurley. Waterford: Waterford Corporation 12–9.<br />

Bourke, E. 1997. <strong>The</strong> Glass, in M. F. Hurley, O. M. B. Scully & S. W. J. McCutcheon (eds.)<br />

Late Viking age and medieval Waterford: Excavations 1986-1992 /Maurice F. Hurley, Orla<br />

M.B. Scully with Sarah W.J. McCutcheon; based on excavations and stratigraphic reports by<br />

Andrew S.R. Gittins ... [et al.]; editors: Terry Barry, Rose M. Cleary and Maurice F. Hurley.<br />

Waterford: Waterford Corporation 381–9.<br />

Bradley, J. & A. Halpin 1992. <strong>The</strong> topographical development of Scandinavian and Anglo-<br />

Norman Waterford, in Waterford history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of<br />

an Irish county, eds. W. Nolan & T. P. Power Dublin: Geography Publications, 105–29.<br />

Gittings, A.S.R. 1986:075. St Peter's Church', Custom House B Ward. www.excavations.ie.<br />

Gittings, A.S.R. 1987:052. St Peter's Church/Bakehouse Lane, Custom House, B Ward<br />

www.excavations.ie.<br />

Gittings, A.S.R. 1988:062. St Peter's Church/Bakehouse Lane, Custom House B<br />

www.excavations.ie.<br />

Hayden, A. 1987:053. Lady Lane/Bakehouse Lane, Custom House Ward www.excavations.ie.<br />

Hayden, A. 1988:063. Bakehouse Lane, Custom House Ward www.excavations.ie.<br />

Hayden, A. 1989. Report of excavations at Bakehouse Lane, Waterford (Unpublished),<br />

Dublin: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Heritage</strong> Service, Department of Environment.<br />

Hurley, M. F. 1988. Recent Archaeological Excavations in Waterford City. Archaeology Ireland,<br />

2(1), 17-21.<br />

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