Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

During work associated with the A20 Road and Sewer Scheme an extended watching brief was carried out along the south side of Snargate Street and Northampton Quay. A number of later Post Medieval/Victorian features were recorded including numerous walls, road surfaces, wells and vaults (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information).

Monument Types

• CELLAR (cellar walls/vaults, Post Medieval - 1800 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• ROAD (road surfaces, Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1900 AD)
• WALL (later post medieval walls, Post Medieval - 1800 AD? to 1900 AD?)
• WELL (6 wells, Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

• ASSEMBLAGE (Post Medieval - 1600 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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During work associated with the A20 Road and Sewer Scheme an extended watching brief was carried out along the south side of Snargate Street and Northampton Quay. A number of later Post Medieval/Victorian features were recorded including numerous walls, road surfaces, wells and vaults.

Snargate Street linked Dover’s Pier district, located to the south west of the main area of development, to the town centre. Pier District seems to have developed between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Snargate Street, running along the beach below the chalk cliffs, provided the only link between these two areas of Dover. In the nineteenth century it formed the town’s principal shopping street. A significant body of useful archaeological data concerning the occupation of the Snargate Street/Limekiln Street area was recorded during the road building programme. No definite evidence for buildings earlier than the seventeenth century was revealed and again, there was certainly nothing of Anglo-Saxon or Medieval date here. All this largely confirms the evidence suggested by historic maps and documents. The evidence uncovered was seen in section. (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2001, Dover Sewers/A20 Project 1991–3, Assessment Report and Updated Project Design (Unpublished document). SKE31815.

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