| More information : SO 9175 9853. Bilston Street. In 1982 2 machine cut sections were made of a medieval ditch running E-W along the rear of properties fronting onto Bilston Street. The ditch is shown on a plan of 1750 as being water-filled and extending over a distance of c150m. It may have been associated either with the 'Great Hall' [SO 99 NW 25] to the south or the boundary between the manors of Deanery and Stow Heath. The ditch measured 3m wide X 2.50m deep (below present ground level). A pit, containing a similar fill to that within the ditch, lay immediately to the south. Firm dating evidence was not obtained for either feature. A possible C12-13 sherd was recovered from the ditch and a possible C13 sherd from the pit. Both, however, were from unstratified positions. (1) |