Monument record 10660 - Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Rubbish Deposit

In December 1972 a 1m deep trench, 0.4m wide, was cut across the gardens on the north-east side of the cathedral (1). The trench produced some areas of sandstone rubble and at one point a considerable quantity of seventeenth to eighteenth century domestic debris. This included a sherd of English majolica, a clay pipe bowl from 1660, parts of three slipware dishes of pink fabric, dentelle rim with scraffito decoration, and a rim sherd of a bowl with similar fabric and decoration, parts of at least two wine bottles of c 1750, and a mass of oyster shells (1). Although there is no other information available on these finds, the way in which they were described suggests that they represent a domestic rubbish deposit or layer on the cathedral grounds (1, 2).

<1> multiple authors, 1973, Excavation Reports and Summaries (Article in Journal). SCH5782.

<2> Anon, 1973, September 1973: North West Newsletter. Excavations (Article in Journal). SCH6497.