A major V-shaped ditch was excavated here with 14th-15th century pottery recovered from its infill. It has been tentatively identified as a medieval town defence.

A possible ford site was identified in 1965, together with a report of Roman pottery having been found nearby in 1956.

Several Romano-British ditches were identified during excavation in 1996; some probably formed the north-western corner of a much larger enclosure that once lay to the south-east

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Medieval ridge and furrow earthworks identified from aerial photographs.

Prehistoric-medieval pottery and tile fragments found in excavations of outlying Priory buildings in 1912.

Building foundations have been viewed in a field known as Dicks Pringle at this approximate location.

Neolithic/ Bronze Age flint scatter found in c.1961

Roman milestone said to have been built into a Railway wall near Blackedge Farm, although the exact site is not known.

Undated flint found in c.1982. Precise location of findspot is unknown.