Event/Activity EPM10 - Oyster Street

Between 1968 and 1971 Portsmouth Museum Service carried out the total excavation of a site situated at the junction of Oyster Street and White Hart Road, Old Portsmouth. The work took place prior to the construction of the Oyster Mews housing development. The site had been associated with an area of derelict 18th century houses, and was used as a scrap yard prior to excavation. During the excavation the surviving buildings on the site were demolished and removed. Oyster Street was the first large-scale archaeological investigation to take place in Old Portsmouth, the original medieval town. The excavations revealed evidence of continuous occupation from the 12th-13th centuries to the modern era. 1971/150