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Monument details

Summary

A cobbled surface aligned northeast-southwest was found during an evaluation on the Rochester Riverside development site. It was provisionally dated to the Roman period and identified as a road leading towards the waterfront, away from the Roman town wall to the southwest.

Monument Types

• ROAD? (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 175 AD to 250 AD)

Full description

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31 trenches were excavated across the Rochester Riverside development site in late 2004 and early 2005. In trenches in the north eastern part of the site a cobbled surface aligned northeast-southwest was found. It was provisionally dated to the Roman period and identified as a road leading towards the waterfront, away from the Roman town wall to the southwest (1).

The road was made up of a bedding layer of angular flints, at a depth of 2.4m OD. There were two further bedding layers above this and above these was the road surface itself. It was 0.12m deep, 4m wide and ran at a northeast-southwest alignment at 2.8m OD. A deposit of clay overlying the road surface produced sherds of pottery dating to between AD 175 and 250 (2).

AOC Archaeology Group, 2006, Rochester Riverside, Kent: Post Excavation Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE15936.

AOC Archaeology, 2008, Archive Report on Archaeological Works (Phases II-V): Rochester Riverside Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31289.

<1> AOC Archaeology Group, 2005, Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Rochester Riverside (Unpublished document). SKE15934.

<3> AOC Archaeology, RRS 04, Interim Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Rochester Riverside (Unpublished document). SKE51833.

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