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Monument details

Summary

Trenches dug between Adrian and Snargate Street in 1949 showed Roman walls and floors associated with pottery of late first - early second century date. Later excavations in 1955 cut a section through the Roman levels. To the east of this section a Roman room with a opus siginum floor and plaster faced tufa and chalk block walls was located (location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available information).

Monument Types

• FLOOR (Roman - 43 AD? to 201 AD?)
• WALL (Roman - 43 AD to 201 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD? to 150 AD?)

Full description

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From the source:

"Trenches dug between Adrian Street and Snargate Street in 1949 showed Roman walls and floors associated with pottery dating to the late 1st - early 2nd century. Later excavations in 1955 cut a section through the Roman levels. To the east of this section a Roman room with a opus siginum floor and plaster faced tufa and chalk block walls was located. There appears to have been a narrow passage or corridor outside this room to the west, the other wall of which has been destroyed by a recent sump. Beyond that is a large room with plastered floor and a plaster faced chalk wall, the floor was covered in a layer of black ash. All of these structures were built on puddled chalk over flints perhaps representing earlier buildings or a rammed chalk surface or quay at the sea edge."(1)

Information about the Medieval finds (2)

Various fragments of Roman material from this excavation were donated to Dover Museum in 1946 where they are located still. (3)

<1> L. Murray Threipland, 1957, Archaeologia Cantiana, Excavations in Dover Vol. 71 (Article in serial). SKE31703.

<2> M. M. Rix and G. C. Dunning, 1955, Archaeologia Cantiana; excavation of a Medieval Gardrobe in Snargate Street, Dover 1945, Vol. 69 (Article in serial). SKE31704.

<3> Dover Museum, 2017, Dover Museum Accession Books (Collection). SKE32383.

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