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Monument details

Summary

A Late Iron Age or early Roman ditch was found during an evaluation on the Rochester Riverside development site. Dumps of Roman tile, worked stone and Opus Signinum were found in alluvium in this area, suggesting it was used for rubbish dumping during the Roman period.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 100 AD)

Associated Finds

• Carved Stone (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
• COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 120 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 Market Place car park alluvial deposits were found. These contained Roman tile fragments, worked stones and Opus Signinum in dumps which is thought to have been the result of dumping on what was a floodplain in the Roman period. A ditch of late Iron Age or early Roman date was also found (1-2).

AOC Archaeology, 2008, Archive Report on Archaeological Works (Phases II-V): Rochester Riverside Kent (Unpublished document).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 AOC Archaeology Group, 2005, Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Rochester Riverside (Unpublished document).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.

<2> AOC Archaeology Group, 2006, Rochester Riverside, Kent: Post Excavation Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE15936.

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 AOC Archaeology, RRS 04, Interim Report on an Archaeological Evaluation at Rochester Riverside (Unpublished document).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

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