Monument record 984/0/17 - 105 Main Street

Excavation at rear of 105 Main Street, to investigate the rear of the burgage plots on N side of Main Street. However, no medieval features were found. Features consisted of a series of short 19th century garden bedding trenches and a series of square postholes, which were presumably associated with staking of crops, and a considerable depth of garden soil. The garden soil produced late medieval to 19th century pot sherds, the late medieval sherds were all small and heavily abraded. From the base of the soil came a late Mesolithic core. The gardening activites may be associated with a seedsman, who held extensive land at the rear of the property and who is recorded on the Tithe Map of 1844 as one of the occupiers of 105 & 107. The absence of earlier rubbish pits may be explained by the dumping of waste over the end of the plot where it was periodically flushed by the sea, before the building of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894, and the absence of wells to the presence of a spring line c.65-70m behind the street frontage. The original medieval plot size may have been 7m wide x 70m long, and the original borough may have been 5.39 hectares, with a total street frontage of 770m (1).

<1> Turner R C, 1984, 105 Main Street, Frodsham (Unpublished Report). SCH53.