Series of pits - C11 or possibly C10, excavated, but no post-Roman structures earlier than C13 on the frontage. Norman stone house found (30m N of High Street). <1> <2> The plan of this building can only be partially restored and is based on a trench dug by the contrctors N of the main building work on the site of the Cups Hotel, in 1974. the rubble walls appeared to contain no peg-tile and are therefore unlikely to be later than the C13. In a letter Stukeley stated that the building was part of the Queens Hotel (subsequently the Cups Hotel) and that it was either demolished or at least extensively altered early in the C18. He wrote that the Queen's Head was `looked upon as one of the most valuable remains of antiquity, there being in it a very antique building, which the old people still have a notion of, under the name of temple'. Saxo-Norman pottery found in pits on excavations on site of the Cups Hotel included Thetford-type, sandy, shelly and Stamford wares. <3> <4>