We collected some pieces of pottery, glass and clay pipe stems today. Some broken bits and pieces in the fill around the wall footings and the infill below the stone floor. Only a small number of pieces possibly for two reasons - 1. Oldham had not become the large city it now is and the chapel was being constructed on the edge of the town, creeping out into the countryside - and 2. the previous owner had inserted large footings underneath brick pillars he inserted to support the main chapel floor, because he wanted an open-plan area in the cellar, so had removed the walls that divided the cellar up into individual rooms!
Photographs of the pottery and glass will be posted when they have been washed
A second sandstone roof flag was also found in the void between the roof slates and the lath and plaster ceiling.
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| Some small finds of glass, pottery and clay pipe stems found in deposits underneath the stone floor at George Street Chapel, Oldham. |
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| The two sandstone roof flags. The left one is heavily sooted and a redder coloured stone also seems to be laminating. |
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