A watching brief was carried out during the groundworks for the construction of two new dwellings. The groundworks included reducing the entire front half of the site to the level of the East Hill pavement, terracing the rear half of the site and creating an access to Priory Street by removing a section of the stone wall which extends south beyond the rear yard of 5 East Hill. Progress was erratic and ground observation conditions were often less than ideal due to the amount of freshly redeposited material spread about the site. Site visits took place at intervals between late June and late September 2000. <1> A large part of the East Hill frontage had previously been cut back to street level. <2> Natural sand was noted almost at pavement level, rising in a southerly direction. At the rear of the site, terracing involved a reduction of 1.4m in the levels adjoining the southern boundary. This revealed a section in which 30cm of modern topsoil sealed an apparently dumped deposit, up to 55cm thick, which contained small clusters of brick, peg-tile and window glass fragments. Beneath this was a pale brown loamy sand (layer 3) with a distinct content of mortar “dust”. Later site observation suggested that this material may have overlain natural sand. Human skull fragments were recovered by the contractor and are understood to have been found in dark soil removed from the upper (southern) part of the site. The remains appeared to be from an adult and consisted of parietal and occipital fragments with fused sutures. These were left in the hands of the contractor for reburial on site. A brick-lined well said to be almost 30m deep was uncovered in the southern part of the site. No further details are available since the find spot was covered by a spoil heap when reported by the contractor.