Excavation K81

This investigation in the garden of numbers 4 & 5 Pettits Row came about following a chance discovery of an underground circular brick feature. During the Victorian period, the occupants of Pettits Row were closely associated with the gun powder works and it was thought that the structure may have an industrial purpose rather than a domestic one. The structure was part of a water storage system (cistern) with a number of outlets through lead pipework and included an overflow run-off channel through a gulley leading to a drainage complex near the old wash houses. The channel was similar in construction to those found during excavation at Davington Priory.

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