Cobham Hall

INVESTIGATIONS AND EXCAVATIONS DURING THE YEAR COBHAM HALL RECENTLY a builder's trench was dug across the west court exposing sixteenth-century brick walls about 2 ft. down, and midway between the two wings. In this position a gatehouse might be expected and a good deal of broken roof tiles suggest that it was a roofed building in 1600, when the rest was still incomplete. Further excavation would show when it was pulled down and how it joined on to the wings, which show no signs of alteration. 271 INVESTIGATIONS AND EXCAVATIONS DURING THE YEAR So little is known about the state of the sixteenth-century buildings that I think this should be on record. There was a hard frost at the time which limited all digging. A. BAKER 272