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109 High Street is a dark red brick building of 19th character with possible 18th century internal features with a modern shop front.

Evaluation and Excavation revealed a dense concentration of settlement related features in the SE corner of the site dating to the 10th-12th centuries.

Scatter of 35 worked flints of probable Middle Bronze Age or later date from garden.

Barbed and tanged flint arrowhead found gardening.

Site of folly (victorian?) in 11 Lower Brook Street garden re-using medieval stone windows and doorways from demolished chapel/monastic house. Demolished 1969.

Barbed and tanged flint arrowhead.

Barbed and tanged arrowhead, found in garden (S1)(S2).

finds from spoil from foundation trench for extension, included 4 Med sherds:- 1 C12/C13 rim; 2 body sherds Med coarseware; 1 body sherd Grimston type ware (S1).

Finds from spoil from foundation trench for extensioN,, included: 44 sherds Thetford type ware (1 decorated), 1 sherd St Neots type ware and 2 lumps of fired clay and a few Med sherds.

Evaluation and excavation identified a number of Roman post holes possibly representing a building and pits.