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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1253 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Clay pipe making debris, Limekiln Street, Dover |
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Summary
During excavations undertaken as part of the A20 road and sewer scheme a rubbish pit containing a large quantity of 18th century clay pipe making debris was recorded on Limekiln Street adjacent to the railway bridge (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 3159 4067 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PIPE WORKSHOP (Post Medieval - 1700 AD? to 1799 AD?)
- PIT (Pit containing clay pipe makinging debris, Post Medieval - 1700 AD? to 1799 AD?)
Full description
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Earth moving in the angle between the existing Limekiln Street and the main railway line revealed a 18th century pit cut into post medieval dump deposits. The pit was fairly large and could only be partially examined; its top had been destroyed by the machine. Of particular interest was the fact that the pit had been filled with large quantities of clay pipe debris including the actual pipes (both bowls and stems), heavily burnt bricks and fused pipe clay fragments. A large sample of clay pipes was salvaged from the pit together with a quantity of the domestic pottery and glass. Clearly a clay pipe works must have existed in the immediate area. The pipes are all of an 18th century type. The pit clearly predates the railway, which means that the dump layers which were cut by the pit must be earlier still. Thus, they are not make-up layers to carry Limekiln Street over the railway bridge (as was originally thought). The 1861 map shows the pit as being situated, under the metalling of Limekiln Street; the railway bridge was re-modelled in the 1920’s. (1-2)
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1991-1992, Canterbury's Archaeology, Sites Outside Canterbury 1991-1992 (Article in serial). SKE31645.
<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1992, Archaeologia Cantiana: Interim Report on work carried out in 1992 by Canterbury Archaeological Trust Vol. 110 (Article in serial). SKE31776.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1991-1992. Canterbury's Archaeology, Sites Outside Canterbury 1991-1992. 1991-1992, pp. 11-16. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1992. Archaeologia Cantiana: Interim Report on work carried out in 1992 by Canterbury Archaeological Trust Vol. 110. Vol. 110 pp. 357-382. |
