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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 34 SW 2540
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Former site of gateway on the southern side of the Contables Gate Barbican at Dover Castle

Summary

During excavations undertaken in 1967 within the barbican outside Constables Gate at Dover Castle, the footings of a former gateway to the barbican were uncovered on its southern side. The date of this date is not clear but is is of a likely C19th date (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on availabel information)

Grid Reference:	TR 3235 4192
Map Sheet:	TR34SW
Parish:	DOVER, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

GATE (Demolished, Post Medieval - 1800 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Full description

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The works of 1967 involved the removal of much of the upper filling between the retaining walls of the Constables Gate Barbican for the insertions of reinforced binders. A small southern gate to the barbican was uncovered. The undefended south gate was clearly C19th in date and the footing of its immediate predecessor did not suggest anything much stronger. It lay only 1.1m lower and was apparently cut into the filling that had buried the earlier north entrance, and itself perhaps only of Napoleonic date. (1)

<1> A. M. Cook, D. C. Mynard, & S. E. Rigold, 1969, Excavations at Dover Castle, Principally in the Inner Bailey A. M. Cook, D. C. Mynard, &S. E. Rigold (Article in serial). SKE52108.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	Article in serial: A. M. Cook, D. C. Mynard, & S. E. Rigold. 1969. Excavations at Dover Castle, Principally in the Inner Bailey A. M. Cook, D. C. Mynard, &S. E. Rigold. Vol 32 Issue 1 PP 54-104. [Mapped feature: #102299 gate, ]

Related records

TR 34 SW 2509

Part of: Constables gate, tower, barbican and residence outer curtain wall, Dover Castle (Building)