House

Monitoring in 1997of the excavation of pile-cap pitsin 32-34 Castle Streetexposed the remains of medieval buildings in the form of clay floors, layers of ash, chewed-up large structural posts and pieces of post-and-wattle fencing. This suggests that the houses on the site were set back from the street front, possibly linked to it by pathways. The fragments of houses uncovered are likely to date from the 10th to the 12th century. Finds included a single sherd of a 12th-century Wiltshire jug, a number of iron points, a knife and an arrowhead, bronze pins, a composite antler comb, bone pins and sewing needles, fragments of wooden stave-built vessels, leather shoes and whetstones (Hayden 1998, 35).