Watching brief by P Jones of SCAU following an evaluation last year revealed that the site appears to have been on the shoreline of a river channel that would once have lain largely below Bridge Street and possibly the neighbouring Montpelier House. Finds indicate that the site was probably not reclaimed until the 17th or 18th centuries, and the only archaeological features revealed were the truncated remains of some of the walls of the (probably late 18th or early 19th century) Lancasterian School that once stood on the site, and four cess and/or well pits. There is the possibility that earlier archaeological deposits had once been present, but if so, these had been removed either by a powerful flood or by human activity.