 Excavations at these and other sites have revealed a rural community of farmers, quite different from the urbanised and industrial community of the 10th century.The four burials excavated near South Great George's Street were also associated with domestic habitations, suggesting that the deceased had been members of a settled Norse community and not the fatalities suffered by a transient raiding party.Late in the 9th century a large metalled road was laid down in the middle of the Temple Bar West site, connecting it with the Liffey.