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Monument details

Summary

An evaluation was undertaken prior to redevelopment of the Town Yard site. Two barrel vaulted brick darins were located in trenches 3 and 4. These would have likely lead into a larger sewer which was also located at the site.(location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• DRAIN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1900 AD? to 2002 AD?)

Full description

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An evaluation prior to the redevelopment of the Town Yard site was undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The evaluation revealed a number of features once associated with the railway station which was situated at this site, these included two brick built, barrel vaulted drains, located in Trenches 3 and 4. These drains were probably associated with a larger sewer that was also located at the site and which runs parallel at 2.3m south of a wall footing which relates to a large railway shed or terminus building. The original internal diameter of this sewer would have been approximately 0.9m. The smaller drains probably joined this sewer at right angles and together, fairly certainly formed part of the drainage complex associated with the original railway station. (1)

Additional Reference (2)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Report on Archaeological Evaluation Trenching at Town Yard, Dover Western Docks (Unpublished document). SKE8245.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2000, Town Yard, Dover Western Docks: Archaeological Impact Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE8244.

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