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Jetty running out to low water mark. Possibly several phases. Posts, concrete, shingle spread and rubble spread.

Jewish cemetery in use between 1796 and 1855. Surrounding walls are Listed (grade II).

Stone axe hammer fragment found at Jex Farm in 1956.

A priest, Sir John Frenze, gave an early endowment (in 1494), to the Guildhall Feoffees, `to found a leper hospital at the corner of Risbygate Street and Chalk Road, which was sometimes called Spittle House Lane.

`John Franze's Spittle Houses' marked on Thos Warren's map of Bury ?1747, with frontage along Risby Gate Street.

Medieval pottery found during excavation. Also Pmed

Assorted (including imported) PMed pottery and stoneware excavated from pit.

Site of numerous barrows, which have been destroyed, see details.

Human skull fragment found by a digger driver while excavating ponds and channels.

Saddle quern and animal bone found during Phase 1 monitoring of excavation of new cut-off channel (for bird reserve).