After a while, it became apparent that there used to be a stream running through the centre of the village. you can't see it from this shot, but underneath it looks like a dried-up stream bed. On either side are fairly robust walls, making me think that they channelled the water through the village.

Presumably, that was before the water features were installed.

I read somewhere that all these water features were installed in 1952 in honour of the coronation. This isn't actually true, you will find a variety of dates stamped on them, though 1952 is fairly common.

By now my feet had had enough, and I had no desire to fight my way through more undergrowth, so a photograph from here will have to suffice.

Going back to what I was saying about museum exhibits, perhaps the archaeologists are excavating old rubbish sites? I certainly wouldn't have spotted any dumps here, as they would have been overgrown, and it would explain why nearly all of the finds are broken. Years ago, I used to collect old Victorian bottles, and would dig them up from old dumps. I would also unearth old dolls heads and clay pipes etc, nearly all broken.

I think I will leave 1950s rubbish dumps to the future archaeologists, though thinking about it, it would be fun to get an old mobile phone and bury it in the ruins here. It would cause quite a puzzle in 1000 years time.