William Wire observed a number of remains in a general drain cut from east to west along Osborne Street, through St Johns Street, turning into Chapel Street and then going again to the west in Essex Street. Wire's published account reads 'In Osborne and Stanwell streets nothing was found. In John-street were found fragments of Roman tiles, both red and yellow and part of a boars jaw, with tusks 6" in length. Throughout the length of the trench in this street, proofs of an old drain appeared, probably the remains of an open ditch as its former name Gutter -Lane, leads us to suppose. For a considerable distance in Chapel Street, many fragments of embossed and plain samian pottery were dug up. There were also portions of urns of common earth and handles and rims of amphorae; but the quantity of oyster shells was astonishing. In Essex street more fragments of various kinds of pottery were discovered...The trench varied in depth from three to fourteen feet. Having watched the excavations on this and on former occasions, I have formed an opinion, that the site of the houses marked 2 & 3 in my plan (bordering St John Street-), and the intervening part of Chapel-street, formed the grand reservoir for the accumulated drainage water, and that it was carried off to the river by the ditch noticed above; and most probably the Chis-wells (in old deeds Chis-pond), now converted into an ornamental piece of water, is the remains of this once general receptacle for the off-scourings of this part of town' <1> A more detailed account was recorded in Wire's Album (missing) luckily reproduced in Hull's notes. <2> Many urns were found in Chapel Street and somewhere between the back ways of No 3 Chapel Street and Head Gate Chapel a skeleton was met with the head lying west and face down, thought to be a victim of the Civil War siege.