CLUMBER STREET, Mansfield
NGR: SK 618 533

A watching brief revealed a cultivation soil that had probably been worked from the medieval period until the nineteenth century. Documentary evidence records that the town was substantially rebuilt in stone after two devastating fires in the 16th century. The watching brief indicated traces of upstanding and buried post-medieval stone buildings.

A culvert, stone cisterns, possibly a furnace, and a series of wells were found along with large quantities of slag. These features belonged to early industrial buildings and probably continued to be used until they were demolished or converted in the late 19th century and replaced by commercial and domestic dwellings.

The map evidence, scattered medieval pottery, and lack of concentrated occupation material, suggests, that the development area was probably within a field system and peripheral to the medieval settlement before its expansion in the 18th century.

Jeffery, S, Clumber Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: A report on an archaeological watching brief, November 2001, Marches Archaeology Series 213