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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 2556 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval ditch on the western side of Dover Castle |
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Summary
The western ditch belongs to the earliest phases of the castle, and must have been here by the time the 13th century curtain wall was completed, or soon after. Though it has gone through several stages of alteration is it essentially Medieval in character. (location accurate to the neartes 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 3243 4185 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DITCH (Medieval to Modern - 1217 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The western ditch must belong to the earliest phases of the castle, and must have been here by the time the 13th century curtain wall was completed, or soon after. Although significant alterations were undertaken in the 1790s to the western defences this side of the castle does remain closer to its medieval appearance than the northern and eastern sides and the medieval ditch remains (albeit deepened at the end of the 18th century) immediately outside the medieval curtain wall and a second ditch was added beyond this, again in the 1790s. (1-2)
<1> English Heritage, 2014, Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SKE52105.
<2> Johnathan Coad, 1995, English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover (Monograph). SKE52106.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2014. Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer. [Mapped feature: #102452 Ditch, ] |
| <2> | Monograph: Johnathan Coad. 1995. English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover. |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 2557 | Parent of: Constables Bastion, outer defences of Dover Castle (Monument) |
| TR 34 SW 2743 | Parent of: Post medieval additions to the western outer defences of Dover Castle (Monument) |
| TR 34 SW 5 | Part of: Dover Castle (Monument) |
