The Bolts seems to be first mentioned in roadways called Vowtegate or Helgate. They survive as three lines of passages behind the shoreline houses, narrow and low. They said that it was one person at a time unless you wished to polish the walls. It is said that “Les boutes or vaults” were used as toilets, flushed by tides, but they ended as significant routeways. (Headley .Memorials of Scarborough 232) It has also been suggested that the Bolts were the line of the mid 13c waterfront but this is not certain. A rubble surface was found below numbers 4-26 Bolts.
