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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1597 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman industrial activity, Ryde Street, Canterbury |
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Summary
Roman industrial activity and metalled surfaces: a Roman street, which is comparable to that of a number of other small Roman streets running between the Roman road at St Dunstan’s Street and Watling Street.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1420 5824 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ROAD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- YARD? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Full description
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In 2008 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out an evaluation and a watching brief. Roman industrial activity and metalled surfaces were found. (1)
In 2009 a susequent watching brief confirmed the findings of the 2008 evaluation regarding the location of the Roman street, which is comparable to that of a number of other small Roman streets running between the Roman road at St Dunstan’s Street and Watling Street. The small streets apparently formed part of a suburb to Roman Canterbury. (2)
<1> Weekes, J., 2012, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 295-296 (Article in serial). SKE25119.
<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2009, Ryde Street, St Dunstan's, Canterbury: Archaeological Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SKE51852.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Weekes, J.. 2012. Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports. Arch Cant CXXXII: 291-305. Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 295-296. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2009. Ryde Street, St Dunstan's, Canterbury: Archaeological Watching Brief. |
