Gormley: Viking settlement artefacts to remain buried
A plan for research at the 1,000-year-old Woodstown site outside Waterford city is to be drawn up, but Minister John Gormley accepted the recommendation of a working group that the area not be fully excavated.
Only a portion of the site, which was discovered during work on the Waterford city bypass in 2003, has been uncovered, and has yielded almost 6,000 artefacts, but it is not known how many more could remain.
