Excavations at Abergavenny Orchard site, 1972

An area of 234 sq m was excavated to reveal Roman to post-medieval features. A 17th-century modification of the defences overlay the much-robbed medieval town wall. A late 15th-century courtyard sealed pits and medieval burgage plots behind the defences. These cut pits and a large stone-based house behind the town wall: the wall sat on a stone and earth bank sealing a turf-and-timber Roman rampart, the earlier phase of which was pre-Flavian, as was a granary behind it. Au(abr)