(TQ 7427 6864)(Sited from OS 1:2500, 1970 to TQ 7427 6864). A group of pottery vessels was recovered from a chalk lined well during the 1961-62 excavation at No.50 - 54 High Street. The well was 2ft 6in in diameter and was excavated to a depth of 14ft below the floor of the cellar. The general character of the pottery assemblage is typical of the sixteenth century and included pipkins of reddish brown sandy ware with partial internal glazing, common during the Tudor Period, and two grey-brown Raeren mugs, a common continental import of the sixteenth century. It is significant that there were no Delft ware sherds in the well, nor any clay tobacco pipes, this negative evidence being useful in assessing the terminus post quem for the filling of the well. (1)

1990 at the rear of No.50 a test pit was excavated. At .80m a surface area made of ragstone, tile and flint was found. 17th-19thC pottery, clay pipes, glass and animal bones were found. (2)

<1> Tester, P.J, 1984, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. XCIX 1983, Researches & Discoveries in Kent p262-66 (Tester, P. J.) (Article in serial). SKE7961.

<2> Lower Medway Archaeological Research Group, 1990, Title
REPORT ON EXCAVATION AT REAR GARDEN SITE AT 51 HIGH ST. ROCHESTER (Unpublished document). SKE6730.