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Monument details

Summary

Post-medieval features were excavated in 2016 at Canterbury Cathedral Welcome Centre. The features include walls, a drain, a brick tank, and another brick feature.

Monument Types

• DRAIN (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD? (About) to 1699 AD? (About))
• WALL (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD? (About) to 1699 AD? (About))
• FEATURE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD? (About) to 1899 AD? (About))
• FLOOR? (Post Medieval - 1800 AD? (About) to 1899 AD? (About))
• STRUCTURE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD? (About) to 1899 AD? (About))
• YARD? (Post Medieval - 1800 AD? (About) to 1899 AD? (About))

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• BRICK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• PIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)

Full description

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Post-medieval features were excavated in 2016 at Canterbury Cathedral Welcome Centre. The features include walls, a drain, a brick tank, and another brick feature. Some of the features date from the early post-medieval period - 16th-17th century - whilst others appear to date from the 19th century.
The 16th-17th century features include walls thought to be associated with post-medieval shops, a property wall (the lower levels of the extant wall for the building in which pit 7 was located), and a drain.
The later features (mainly 19th century), include a vaulted brick tank, brickwork, yard surfaces, and a curved brick feature.
The vaulted brick tank is thought to have potentially have formed the tank for a water closet.
One of the yard surfaces was found to contain animal remains, tile, brick, and a copper alloy pin with globular heads. It is unclear when this yard surface dated from, however, it may be 19th century or earlier.
The brickwork may have formed a floor surface.
The curving brick feature may have formed the wall of an unidentified structure.
Medieval features were also excavated at the site (TR 15 NE 1975). (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2016, Canterbury Cathedral Welcome Centre Archaeological evaluation report (Unpublished document). SKE52682.

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