EDO5033 - Observations made at the Mitre Inn, Westbury and Lower Acreman Street, 1933

In 1933 archaeological material was observed at a depth of 2 ft. near the garage gate of the Mitre Inn at the junction of Westbury and Lower Acreman Street. A large quantity of pins with spherical wound wire heads were observed together with some larger ones and cuttings of brass strip or wire. The British Museum suggested they were 16th-17th century in date, backed up by the associated pottery. Similar material was observed at Ludbourne Hall, by the Woolmington Hotel and opposite Gainsborough House, about 215 yards from the north gate of the railway crossing, South Street during the digging of a drainage trench in 1955. Here the metalling was iron stained and littered with brass pins of a similar type but in smaller quantities.