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There is currently a dig in Garshall Green, near Milwich, Stafford. This is of a house platform which was built about 1680 and no longer used domestically after about 1730. It is of the "passage hearth" layout and would have been built chiefly of timber with a brick chimney. It is believed, for several reasons, that there is a smaller, earlier house platform underneath the one being currently worked on. It is thought that the house was moved a short distance after 1730 to the site of the current house on the plot, for reasons of drainage.
The detached seal bearing the initials I S L was found on the site together with an interesting bronze bearing the picture of a deer.
The people digging the site do not know what it is. The suggestion is
that it was used as a decorative insert for a casket. Any other ideas will
be gratefully received. Any more news on the site will be added as the dig goes on.
Produced with the kind permission of Winston Hollins the joint dig director.
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