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The Past Beneath Our Feet with the Places Team

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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What Is This Pit Trap?

The gorg store acts as a museum. Pop into the freezer aisle and see a mediaeval house. You can look down, you'll see these steps and the place s, the ruins of this dwelling. There's also information panels around the store, so when you're shopping, you kind of learn more about this particular dwellingAs part of their excavations they found what is known as an eighteenth century pit trap. Was actually a device that belonged to the andrew street theatre which was at same location manymany years later. So it's almost like just these different layers of history just lie right on top of each other in one place.

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