Wessex Archaeology begin Jewry Street excavation (From Daily Echo)

Wessex Archaeology begin Jewry Street excavation

6:50am Thursday 8th January 2009

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS digging in Winchester are hoping to learn more about the city’s ancient street layout.

Wessex Archaeology has begun working on the site of a former off licence in Jewry Street, before it is turned into a restaurant and housing complex. A team of ten archaeologists are expected to be in place until February.

Project manager, Paul McCulloch, said they had already uncovered parts of a high status medieval building. He added they also expected to find Saxon, Roman and possibly Iron Age remains.

Artefacts and information from the dig will be displayed outside the site in Jewry Street and opposite in the Discovery Centre.

Clanfield Properties confirmed that after the dig they would begin work on six one-bedroom flats and a restaurant on the ground and basement floors. The company added no one had yet been signed up to run an eatery from the new premises.

The former off-licence on the site, Bottoms Up, was demolished a year ago.

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