Excavations here uncovered habitation deposits laid down between the 12th century and the later 13th century, a period when this part of the city was being actively shaped within the walls of the medieval town. Three distinct structures were identified within those deposits, suggesting this was not a single household but a small cluster of occupation, the kind of layered, close-quartered living that defined urban life in medieval Dublin.

The finds recovered from the site give a sense of the everyday rather than the exceptional. Leather, wood, bone, and bronze objects were all present, the sort of assemblage that speaks to crafts, tools, and the material texture of ordinary households. Leather in particular survives well in Dublin's waterlogged urban soils, and such finds often include offcuts, shoes, and straps that connect directly to the working life of the people who lived here. The excavations and their results were documented by Walsh (1993), whose survey places the site within the broader archaeological record of the south city. The 12th to 13th century date range corresponds with a significant period of urban consolidation in Dublin, following the Anglo-Norman arrival in 1169 and the subsequent restructuring of the town's layout, trade, and population.

Back Lane runs parallel to High Street in the Liberties area, a short walk from Christchurch Cathedral. The junction itself is a quiet and easily missed corner of the city, with nothing above ground to mark what lies beneath the modern streetscape. For anyone with an interest in Dublin's medieval archaeology, the area repays a slow walk; the street pattern in this part of the city still broadly follows its medieval outline, and the proximity of surviving features like the city walls nearby provides some physical context for imagining the scale and density of the settlement that once occupied this ground.