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Monument details

Summary

A Saxon structure, was located directly overlying a slightly earlier Saxon structure (N6) and the Roman building, to the north west of Market Street, Dover. Only parts of the west and south walls of this structure were uncovered and these consisted of a series of oval post holes in deep and wide wall trenches, which cut through the floor of the earlier structure. (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information)

Monument Types

• GRUBENHAUS (hut N7, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 650 AD to 750 AD)

Associated Finds

• COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• SHERD (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 500 AD to 699 AD)
• LOOMWEIGHT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 600 AD to 799 AD)

Full description

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(Summarised from publication)

A Saxon structure, was located directly overlying a slightly earlier Saxon structure (N6) and the Roman building, to the north west of Market Street Dover. Only parts of the west and south walls of this structure were uncovered, the north and east lying beyond the limits of excavation, and these consisted of a series of oval post holes in deep and wide wall trenches, which cut through the floor of the earlier structure.

The two walls met at a right angle and it is likely that they formed part of a rectangular building. There is little dating evidence for this structure but the succeeding soil deposits covering it are sealed by another structure (N8) which can be dated to the c. 10-11th centuries. (1)

<1> Brian Philp., 2003, The Discovery and Excavation of Anglo Saxon Dover (Monograph). SKE31831.

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