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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 433 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Forum (Buttermarket) |
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Summary
A market, known during the 12th century as The Forum, and as the Buttermarket in the 17th century.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1498 5784 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FORUM (FORUM, Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)
Full description
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(TR 14985784 - sited from CAT Topo map). Forum. (1) The Buttermarket, in existence in the 12th century, is not associated with any particular commodity, though there was a flush-shambles in the south-western corner. The name Buttermarket is of the period c1700; in the 12th century it was called 'the forum'. (2)
<1> CAT Topo Maps of Cant 2nd ed 1982 c1200 (OS Card Reference). SKE38737.
<2> Cant under the Angevin Kings 1967 108 (W Urry) (OS Card Reference). SKE38513.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: CAT Topo Maps of Cant 2nd ed 1982 c1200. |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Cant under the Angevin Kings 1967 108 (W Urry). [Mapped feature: #43883 Market, ] |
