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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 421 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | A saw pit, Chatham Dockyard |
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Summary
A brick built structure used for sawing timber for use within the dockyard.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7615 6947 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SAW PIT (Post Medieval - 1821 AD to 1875 AD?)
Full description
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A brick built structure encountered in an evaluation trench within Chatham Dockyard. It features on maps from 1821 onwards. It was in filled with a series of late 19th century industrial waste dumps, which contained a large number of 19th century furnace bricks and the broken remains of three sandstone grinding wheels. A layer of wood chips was found at the base of the structure, probably the product of sawing (1).
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2007, Chatham Dockyard Interface Land, Chatham, Kent - Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE15836.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2007. Chatham Dockyard Interface Land, Chatham, Kent - Archaeological Evaluation Report. |
Related records
| TQ 77 SE 220 | Part of: Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard (Monument) |
