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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1255 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman walling near the Church of St. Martin Le Grand, Dover |
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Summary
5 areas of Roman walling/foundations and occupation levels were identified during excavations near St Martin Le Grand Church in 1955 (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 31916 41427 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 43 AD? to 150 AD?)
Full description
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Extensive Roman levels of the first and second centuries AD were uncovered during excavations on a site to the west of Market Square in 1955. The Roman features uncovered included: three Roman walls of chalk blocks set in clay, one of which is associated with a narrow drain or flu on the eastern side, all are associated with sherds of Roman pottery including Samian ware, and appear to date to the later first century AD; a massive Roman foundation of chalk blocks set in a silty chalky clay, this seems to date to the Trajanic - Hadrianic period or later and was associated with samian ware and laminated Roman levels (identified in section) which are probably exterior surfaces, there however were not dated. (1)
<1> Philip A. Rahtz, 1958, Archaeologia Cantiana, Dover: Stembrook and St. Martin Le Grand. Vol. 72 (Article in serial). SKE31641.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Philip A. Rahtz. 1958. Archaeologia Cantiana, Dover: Stembrook and St. Martin Le Grand. Vol. 72. Vol. 72, pp 111-117. |
