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a dish of them would be thrown out together. Bones of dog 

 were found, probably a few of the disturbed bones of a dog 

 which had been buried. 



Of the age of the objects found it is difficult to speak with 

 great certainty. There does not appear to be anything that 

 would necessarily carry us back to the time of the Dominican 

 Friars who lived nearly opposite on the other side of the road. 

 Indeed we may suppose that the frugal brethren did not break, 

 perhaps did not possess, a large stock of ware. We generally 

 find a larger quantity of household refuse around what is known 

 to have been a house of public entertainment than anywhere 

 else. Perhaps the greater conviviality that usually pervaded 

 the life of a hostelry would account for this. 



The black pottery might be contemporary with the friars, 

 but most of the other objects associated with it could not. 

 Much of it was beneath the walls of the Inn which has just 

 been pulled down, and this we must therefore refer to an 

 older house upon the same site. The College opposite, whose 

 earliest statutes are dated 1585, was cut off from St Andrew's 

 Street by a high wall. 



The Delft Dr Glaisher refers to the 16th or 17th century, 

 and the metal objects Mr Redfern believes to belong to about 

 the same range of time. 



