EDO350 - 60 Cheap Street, Sherborne; excavation 1976

Katherine Barker conducted a small excavation in the garden of 60 Cheap Street during the winter and spring of 1976-7 in order to test her theories concerning the significance of the putative curved boundary marked by the course of Hound Street and Acreman Street. It was claimed that five boundaries appeared to cross the site, although their positions and nature are far from clear on the published excavation plan. One supposed boundary in particular [G] along the southern edge of the excavation was said to represent the curved Lan boundary (1). However, no dating evidence or other evidence for its function was recorded. Furthermore, only one edge appears on the excavation plan and the precise form of this feature cannot be determined.