In 1839 a quantity of soil was removed from the site on which was built Mill Place in Butt Road (New the New Police Station). The excavations were watched by William Wire, who communicated some of the results in a letter to Mr C.R. Smith, he states 'There was the deposit of burnt bones simply laid upon a tile without any protection from the earth; the deposit in urns , of various shapes, patterns and sizes, in some instances accompanied by other fictile vessels; there was the deposit of the body entire, enclosed in a wooden box or coffin, as the large iron nails testified, some of them accompanied by urns'. For the remainder of the report see source <1>