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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1366 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | South line battery (19th century), Moat and searchlight placements. Archcliffe Fort |
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Summary
A 19th century gun battery (South Lines Battery), 19th century fortress moat (South Lines), 20th century artillery/search light emplacements were located during a watching brief undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust at Archcliffe Fort. (location accurate to the nearest 50m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 3131 4020 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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This project consisted of a major archaeological watching brief and excavation programme, conducted across an extensive part of the maritime and water-front areas of this important historic town, ahead of major road construction and sewer trenching, between the summer of 1991 and the spring of 1993. There were 21 areas of archaeological investigation: the first was South Lines, Aycliffe. Situated on the Western Heights above Dover, defending the approaches to the town stands a massive moated fortress, constructed between the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries. A substantial section of the outer fortress moat (The South Lines), running up from the cliffedge to the main Citadel, was removed by the new A20, allowing the very solid construction of the nineteenth century moat walls to be recorded. Several adjacent structures of the Second World War were also recorded, providing evidence of the continued use of the fortress for defence into the mid-twentieth century. Several details do not seem to have been previously recorded. The new data add to our understanding of the works, which formed key elements in the later defences of the town and its harbour. (1)
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2001, Dover Sewers/A20 Project 1991–3, Assessment Report and Updated Project Design (Unpublished document). SKE31815.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2001. Dover Sewers/A20 Project 1991–3, Assessment Report and Updated Project Design. |
