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East cellar wall pier between doorway and window prior to restoration. View from inside the lower ground-level kitchen showing excavation to base blocks set on bedrock, the natural "footings"{1} underpinning the foundations. Further excavation, conducted within archaeological screening methods, will be undertaken to determine the extent of instability in
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Exterior corner (“quoin corner”) of pier to left [south] of cellar doorway after removal of later door frame and non-original jamb-plinths. View prior to removal of displaced and unstable masonry, re-alignment to original position, and re-laying of pier stonework. Darker stones at foundation level (which were below the modern grade) have been excavated an
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The water level [“table”] evident in this photo [12/09/09] is two inches above the original stone sill, a typical level after several inches of rainfall, which occurs several times each year or more frequently [as in 2009]. This varying frequency of inundation has historically been sufficient to subject the jambs and door to destructive fungus-rot [see photo
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