Part of a spring with a stone well sink and a cold bath structure were revealed during the widening of the A26 near the Pantiles in 1971. Two phases of construction were identified; a lower elliptical basin of finely worked stone c.1m, predating the early 19th century barrel vault which covered it. Excavation also revealed an irregularly brick-paved floor resting on clay and sandstone through which the water rose. Small finds included tin-glazed earthenware, fragments of an apothecary's pill-rolling slab, an ointment pot, a glass phial and a piece of vitrious slag. The bath seems to have been in use between c.1766 and shortly after 1827. A coin of 1911 at the bottom of the well indicated that the site was only recently buried.