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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1816 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman made ground and +. ditch, Albany Place, Dover |
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Summary
During the excavation of a dug-out on the western side of Albany Place, Dover in 1918, an area of Roman made ground containing sherds of pottery and fragments of tufa was located along with the possible side of a ditch running in a southernly direction. (location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 3180 4130 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full description
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Taken from source: In Albany Place, on the west of the town, Mr. Amos saw the entrance to a dugout, about half-way down the road on the west side, made in 1918. Roman pottery, tile, pieces of tufa, etc., were found from a depth of 2 ft. below the road to the maximum depth of the cutting, 11 ft. On the western side, this ‘ made ‘soil ‘ rested against a slope of clay,’ which may have been merely the side of a pit, but suggests the possibility of a ditch running in a southerly or south-easterly direction towards the edge of the cliff. (1)
It is possible that the ditch may reppresent the western ditch of the Roman fort of the Classis Brittanica, the western wall of which is located approximately 6m to the east.
<1> Page, W. (ed), 1932, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Kent Volume III (Monograph). SKE7810.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Page, W. (ed). 1932. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Kent Volume III. |
