The Bargain Stone sits quietly in the churchyard of St Peter's Collegiate Church — a flat sandstone slab with a worn circular hole, entirely unassuming until you learn what it was for. Medieval traders in Wolverhampton market would seal deals by clasping hands through the hole, a physical ritual that transformed an oral agreement into a binding transaction in the community's eyes.
It is a small thing, easily overlooked. But as an object that has sat in this spot for five hundred years, absorbing the commercial life of a market town, it has a quiet significance. Look for it in the churchyard wall on the south side of the church.