REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, ETC. 
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In Plate III. (Fig. 2), the etched portion indicates the 
position of demolished buildings. The two-gabled house in 
High Ousegate was dated 1635, the carved barge-boards, etc., 
have been re-used on a building in Marygate. The joists and 
timber which formed the ceiling on first floor had stencil 
patterns, 3 inches deep, painted between the joists; this 
ceiling was removed to, and re-used at, Huntington Hall. A 
piece of square panelling in cak, about 80 feet super, went 
south. During the demolition two brick arched fireplaces, 
back to back, were revealed ; one 5 feet wide in long room ; 
the other occupied an angle of a smaller room. Behind the 
gabled house was a garden, and from the discovery of a 
portion of a red stone balustrade (Plate IV. L) it would 
seem to have been a typical 17th Century garden, which was 
subsequently destroyed, and a three-storied house built in it. 
Facing Coppergate was a shop and house, erected some forty 
years ago, when it was set back for the building line of to-day; 
the shop was occupied by Mr. Ralph, printer. On this site, 
business premises for Mr. G. W. Harding are in course of 
erection, from the design of Messrs. Monkman and Hornsey. 
The writer is indebted to Mr. Thompson, who is in charge of 
the works, for affording him facilities for observation. 
The house, 25, High Ousegate, had overhanging stories ; 
the floor joists were formed of tree trunks, seven and eight 
inches in diameter, laid sixteen inches apart. The house is 
being rebuilt as an addition to the business premises of Mr. 
C. M. Brown. 
In the Ethnological Room in the Museum is a glazed case 
containing a large number of objects classed as Danish and 
which w'ere found during the formation of Clifford Street. 
These objects are like those found in High Ousegate, and 
similar deposits of warp, bone, horn and leather have been 
removed under Mr. Dyson’s premises in Coppergate, under 
Barclays’ Bank, also in Parliament Street, Pavement, and 
Silver Street, so that the tan-pits unearthed in High Ousegate 
may be only a small portion of an ancient extensive tanner}'. 
