(TQ 7430 6865) Old Corn Exchange. During rebuilding operations in 1961, an excavation was carried out in a cellar ar the rear of the Old Corn Exchange. The structural remains were fragmentary but the Roman levels produced useful groups of stratified pottery and there was medieval material of considerable interest. Where undisturbed, the Roman levels consisted of a series of floors containing occupation material of the first and second centuries. These were not associated with any structural remains, except for two small stake holes, although it is possible that Layer II may be contemporary with the short length of Roman wall, dated c.150 AD. The medieval remains comprised part of a room at the western end of our trench, and a corridor which descended three steps to further room just outside the northern limit of the excavation. A latrine pit produced part of a green-glazed jug, a fragment of a glass bowl or bottle, an iron adze-head, and almost all the fragments of a jug of polychrome ware, which dates the filling of the pit to c.1300 AD. The building was therefore at least of thirteenth century date and cannot be earlier than c.1100AD. The two upper floors belong to a brick-walled celar apparently part of the Corn exchange built in 1706. (1)

<1> Arch Cant 85 1970 95-6, 108-11. (AC Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE35829.