Site Event/Activity record ECH6292 - Excavations at The Garages, Castle, Northwich

'The Garages', excavated by Prof Barri Jones, University of Manchester, March 1985. Five trenches were excavated in an area between Chester Road and eastern end of Castle Court; the trench numbering runs from that of the 1983 Bowling green excavations, hence trenches 11 to 15. Trenches 11 and 12 lie within the area known as ‘the garages’. Trenches 13 and 14 straddled the boundary between the Garages and the Bowling Green and were designed to stratigraphically link the archaeology of the two areas. Trench 15 was an open area linking Area 9 and Trench 4, excavated in 1983. More foundations for the linear buildings seen in 1983 were found in trench 15. The other trenches located foundation trenches interpreted as an earlier granary structure and a later courtyard building (potential praetorium). An interim report was produced (Jones, Nevell & Reynolds, 1987, source 2) and the finds archive is held mostly by Cheshire Museums. (Sources 1-2) Accounts by G.D.B. Jones of the excavations at the Bowling Green and Garages sites. (sources 4-5)