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Street (Queens' Lane) and High Street (King's Parade), which 

 represents the low sloping edge of the gravel spur on which 

 the old town was built. This area is entirely overspread by 

 colleges, except the strip along the east side of the High 

 Street, which is, or was till recently, occupied by town houses. 

 That is to say, as shown above, the principal street was carried 

 along the margin of the high ground but not so low down the 

 slope as to be unsuitable for the erection of houses on either 

 side of it. In St Catharine's College a quantity of rubbish was 

 turned out, with mediaeval pottery and bones in made ground 

 on gravel ; and similar made ground was proved during the 

 extension of Queens' College to the north. In King's College 

 the more easterly part of the site consists of made ground on 

 alluvium, but the Chapel is on made ground on the gravel. 

 This was seen at the west end of the Chapel during some 

 excavations for repairs. I found here an interesting figure 

 of a lion carved in stone, which was no part of the Chapel 

 decorations, but must have been carried in from still more 

 ancient buildings with other rubbish, which was used to level 

 up the ground. I placed it in the Provost's Lodge. Further 

 on, during the last extensive alterations in the Arts School, 

 made ground on gravel was exposed. Much of the pottery 

 found here was of the older mediaeval type ; black ware with 

 the strongly turned back flat rim. 



For some reason the corner on which the Tutor's bouse at 

 Trinity Hall 1 was erected had been always waste land. The 

 date of the enclosure of this portion of land is fortunately 

 recorded in Warren's Book 2 : 



The fellows fruit Garden. 

 The ffellows (fruit Garden next Garret Hostle Lane is in Length (Feet. 



1 Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Conim. 1880, R. XL. xxi. 



- A collection of documents relating to Trinity Hall, interspersed with 

 anecdotes and descriptions, by William Warren, LL.D. He was admitted 

 Sizar 3 May, 1700; elected Fellow, 3 Sept. 1712; died 171-V -IU. Thu work 

 is styled : " Collectanea ad Collegium sive Aulam sancta) Trinitatis in Uni- 

 versitate Cantabrigiensi precipue spectantia"; and is signed at the bottom 

 of the title-page: " W. Warren, LL.D. Aul. Trin. Soc. Ap. 27, 1730." See 

 Arch. Hint. i. 237-240. 



