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Ian
Channell Wright
Manager: Photographic Digital Archiving and Conservation
Border Archaeology
The Plaza
Owen Way
Leominster Enterprise Park
Leominster
HR6 0LA
UK
Border Archaeology was instructed by Julian Alder of PLJ Ltd on behalf of Crystalight Ltd to carry out a programme of archaeological recording with respect to the conversion to residential use of a mid-18th -century range to the rear of No. 9 New Street Worcester. The building served as an Oddfellows Hall from 1923 and was subject to a programme of rebuilding, alteration and extension in 1928-9. It is later shown as a 'Club' on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1965.
The results of the archaeological observation were largely negative, the drainage runs (Areas 1 and 3-4) being of relatively shallow depth; however, where excavations went deeper, namely, on the eastern elevation (Area 2) and to the rear of the building (Area 5), limited evidence of earlier activity was recovered comprising a small number of pottery sherds of medieval and post-medieval date from Area 2 together with evidence of a floor and walls in Area 5, possibly relating to the existing mid - 18th -century basement complex.