The Nicholas street/St. Peter's Street site is known locally as 'the fireplace site' due to the discovery in the late 1990s of a Medieval fireplace high up in one of the walls (pictured above). The traditional practice of history has ascribed value to that artifact, and many of the people we spoke to regarding the site mentioned that the, to them, the rest of the remains are of 'no historical significance'. We take umbrage to this phrase as we feel that there can be no one, definitive 'history', and so it is not possible to ascribe more value to one artifact than to another. There are several other fireplaces extant within the wall, which led us to develop our thinking regarding the rituals of domesticity, and will perhaps form part of any scheme(s) we produce.
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