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Excavation
Date January 1993
Event ID 633723
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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NT 342 724 An integrated programme of archaeological survey and excavation was completed in January 1993 on the site of a proposed food market development. The results of this short but intensive exercise demonstrated that the present wireworks factory buildings were erected on a green field site, which in turn sealed medieval deposits. Artefactual evidence suggests a hiatus between the 15th/16th century and 19th century, which may be connected with the presence of a French fort built in 1548.
The excavated medieval deposits appear to be agriculturally derived, covering a period from the 13th to 15th century and probably relate to backlots associated with the river frontage occupation.
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G Ewart and J Triscott 1993.
