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Monument details

Summary

Romano-British pottery and coins were located in 1862 on Castle Hill, Dover, by the Waterworks. The conditions in which they were located and the current location of the coins and pottery is unknown. (location accurate to the nearest 100m based on available information).

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• URN (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
• VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
• COIN (Roman - 117 AD to 337 AD)

Full description

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Finds of Roman pottery and coins were made on Castle Hill, Dover near the site of the waterworks in 1862. The pottery assemblage includes two black urns and a red, bottle shaped vessel.(1) Alongside these vessels, the ‘Victoria County History of Kent’ notes that “From the Castle Hill a Diocletian; and 7 coins, which were found on the spot in 1862, are preserved in the Castle church—1 each of Hadrian, Commodus, Elagabalus, Valerian, Gallienus, Tetricus, and Constantine.”(2) The pottery cannot now be identified in the museum. It may have been lost when the museum was partly destroyed during WWII and the coins are no longer in the church. No further information concerning date or circumstances of discovery or actual findspots has been found during field investigation.

<1> Arch Cant 18 1889 204 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE34769.

<1> George Payne, 1889, Archaeologia Cantiana: On a Roman Statue and other remains in the Dover Museum Vol. 18, Arch Cant 18 1889 204 (G Payne) (Article in serial). SKE31795.

<2> Page, W. (ed), 1932, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Kent Volume III (Monograph). SKE7810.

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