The new season has begun, with good news and not so good. The good news is that the parch mark of last year could turn out to be a possible well, and a well made one at that! Substantial walls and a large circular patch of soft soil, as shown above. We can't go too deep for H&S reason, but it is quite big and so we can dig some of it out and hopefully find out its construction and some nice dateable artefacts.
The new 10m square trench did not bring up the wall or drain, so we are going to extend it to the left of this picture and backfill the right side, over the water pipe shown by the blue lines. This could mean that the house was not square and open facing the walled garden, or we just hit a space with no wall existing.
This nice 16th century silver coin came up in the 'well' area and could have still been in circulation in the early 17th century.
This plaster work was probably decoration inside the house.
Some pottery and glass was also found.
