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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 190 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible site of Fisher's Gate, Townwall Street, Dover. |
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Summary
Possible site of Fishers Gate, part of the Medieval town wall/defences is on Townwall Street, between the junction of Townwall Street with Bench Street and Townwall Street and Mill Lane, but there has been no archaeological evidence recovered to back this theory up (location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 3204 4128 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GATE (GATE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Full description
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['C' TR 32114133] Conjectured site of Postern or Fisher's Gate. Possible site of Fishers Gate, part of the Medieval town wall/defences is on Townwall Street, between the junction of Townwall Street with Bench Street and Townwall Street and Mill Lane (1) but there has been no archaeological evidence recovered to back this theory up and there is no information about the date of the construction/demolition of this gate.
<1> W. Batcheller, 1836, The New Dover Guide (Monograph). SKE31913.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: W. Batcheller. 1836. The New Dover Guide. |
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