NHER 67096 (Monument record) - Post-medieval to modern remains

January-August 2010. Watching Brief.
Maintained during excavation of service trench linking a telegraph pole adjacent to the city wall (NHER 384) to a manhole in the street.
Close to the city wall a layer of mixed 20th-century rubble and soil was present beneath the topsoil. A single fragment of post-medieval stoneware was recovered from this deposit. Removal of this material exposed a floor of soft red brick and the base of a single-skin wall built from hard 'engineering'-type bricks. Both were aligned perpendicular to the city wall.
At the opposite end of the trench a wall was exposed running parallel to Baker Street. This was composed of large flints and fragments of brick set in a soft white, chalky mortar. Natural sands were exposed to the north of this wall, but not to the south, where a dark brown silt sand deposit containing 20th-century rubble was seen. This deposit may well represent the infill of a cellar. These remains probably relate to a row of dwellings that can be seen on the southern side of Baker Street on the Ordnance Survey 1:500 Town Plan map of 1884 (S1).
See report (S2) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2023.