The archaeological team has extracted 60,000 artifacts from the two-month-long dig this summer
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Such a site dig of that scale is required due to Irishtown Bend's status, since 1990, on the National Register of Historic Places. The artifact recovery had to be swift and far-reaching enough, Owens said, as to wrap up before the Port's stabilization of the hillside, which began officially on Monday.
Plans for Irishtown Bend Park depict a sort of homage to the Irish shantytown past, before the area was entirely abandoned in the mid-1950s. It's unclear how exactly some of the artifacts recovered in June and July will be used, but Owens suggested LAND Studio, the designers of the park, will decide on curation later in the year.
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