The street was excavated by archaeologists in 1969–73; finds included wooden bowls, platters and barrel staves, some unfinished, suggesting the presence of wood-turners and coopers. Also found were sketches of ships on wood and scale models of ships, an early eleventh-century post and wattle building, a bronze Anglo-Norman strap-tag, a decorated Viking needle case, a large double-sided decorated comb, fragments of amber, a clay crucible, bone combs, bronze pins, a brooch similar to Norse examples form Birka and Hedeby, iron nails, fish-hooks, needles, bronze and gold wire, coins, potsherds of Ham Green Pottery and Bordeaux ware and glass, illustrating the street's links with Viking Dublin and Anglo-Norman Dublin.