Excavations on the medieval and post medieval buildings at the former Colchester tractors site, January 1995. The first building dated to the C13- 14. It was a three- roomed house with masonary fittings, clay floors and a central hearth for heating and cooking. It measured approximately 5x 15m. The implication of the central Hearth is that the hall, was single storey and open to the roof. To the rear of the house were yard areas, a few pits, and a tile- built circular bread oven.

During the C15- 16 the earlier house was substantially rebuilt and enlarged into a five - roomed structure. Although the earlier structure was domestic, this later atructure may have contained shops/ industrial units as blacksmithing debris was found on one of the floors. <1>.

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