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.
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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
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