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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 363 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Roman Building, High Street, Rochester |
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Summary
Site of a Roman building with evidence for three phases of flint walling including an apsidal bath. Nothing more known about the site.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7428 6863 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD? (at some time))
Associated Finds
- BATH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
Full description
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Site of a Roman building with evidence for three phases of flint walling including an apsidal bath. Nothing more known about the site. (1-2)
Part of a masonry building was found outside the King's Head Hotel in 1905 during cable laying in the High Street. It could have been part of this structure or an adjacent buidling. (3)
<1> Harrison, A. C., 1992, Excavation of a Belgic & Roman site 50 - 54 High St, Rochester (Article in serial). SKE7959.
<2> Chaplin, R.E., 1963, Report for 1962, Arch Cant 77 1962 Report for 1962 (Article in serial). SKE7958.
<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2007, An Archaeological desk-based study of a site at the junction of George Lane and Corporation Street, Rochester, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16312.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Harrison, A. C.. 1992. Excavation of a Belgic & Roman site 50 - 54 High St, Rochester. Vol. CIX p41 - 50. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Chaplin, R.E.. 1963. Report for 1962. Vol. LXXVII pl-li. Arch Cant 77 1962 Report for 1962. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2007. An Archaeological desk-based study of a site at the junction of George Lane and Corporation Street, Rochester, Kent. |
