A watching brief was carried out during the excavations of foundation beams for two building footprints and their associated drain runs and soakaways The footings and soakaways were excavated into natural glacial deposits and were dug through a modern/post medieval dark earth and a light yellow brown silty subsoil. The drain runs were fairly shallow in nature.

The "Dark Earth" across the watching brief area contained a large amount of modern and post medieval debris. This material was made up exclusively of peg tile, brick fragments and amounts of animal bone. The nature of the material observed is consistant with rubbish deposition that would be expected from activity in the yards of the post medieval properties that front onto East Street. No features were observed during the course of the watching brief.<!>