During excavations at Winetavern Street, a timber revetment came to light near the northern end of the street. A revetment, in this context, is a facing or retaining structure built to hold back earth or water along a bank or shoreline. This one was orientated north to south and, unusually, was founded not on timber alone but on masonry, suggesting a more deliberate and perhaps longer-lived construction than a simple riverside working platform.

The significance of the find lies in what it might represent. According to Linzi Simpson's 2002 analysis, the structure may indicate the presence of an enclosed inlet or an early harbour at this location. Claire Walsh's earlier work from 1997 had already drawn attention to the revetment's position and construction, noting its placement at the northern end of Winetavern Street, which runs down towards the River Liffey. Medieval Dublin was a city that grew along and because of that river, and the idea that there were defined inlets or small harbour features tucked into its banks, now entirely built over, adds a layer of complexity to how the waterfront was actually organised and used. The masonry foundation raises questions about when exactly this structure was put in place and by whom, questions the available record does not yet fully answer.

Winetavern Street itself still exists, running between Christchurch Place and the quays, so the approximate location of the find is easy enough to place on a modern map. There is nothing visible at the surface today, and no marker draws attention to what lies beneath. The Wood Quay area nearby, where significant Viking and medieval remains were excavated in the 1970s and 1980s before the Dublin civic offices were built, gives some sense of the archaeological depth of this part of the city. Anyone interested in the buried riverine landscape of early Dublin would find the published excavation reports the most rewarding way in, since the physical site offers no trace of what was once there.