Monument Type(s):

• CELLAR? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)
• UNDERCROFT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)
• WALL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)

Summary

This site represents: a wall of medieval date, an undercroft of medieval date, a possible cellar of medieval date.

Related records

Associated Finds

• FSA333 - QUERN (11th century to 15th century - 1066 AD? to 1499 AD?)

Associated Events

• ESA3622 - 1891 observation

Description

On the premises of Mr Della Porta, No.5 Princess Street, while carrying out some alterations and excavations in the foundations lately, an interesting discovery was made. An ancient wall of stone, well constructed and in good preservation, running parallel with the street, in a line with the back wall of the house, was revealed, having a length of 14 or 15 feet, and a thickness of 7 feet 6 inches. On the side next the street was an arched recess in the thickness of the wall, the arch being a flat ellipse, slightly pointed. To the west of this wall, at right angles to it, was some masonry indicating the spring of an arch of considerable span, which might have been a bridge, the earth beneath being wet. There was also found part of a hand-mill for grinding grain (a quern) <1>

. Note: the masonry springing sounds like a truncated vault, possibly over a former undercroft lying at right-angles to the street, the recorded wall being its back wall <2>

<01> Phillips W, 1892, Article in Shropshire Notes and Queries (Article in serial). SSA10347.

Sources

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