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Monument details

Summary

This structure was located in an area which, at the time formed part of the disused cemetery of St Mary's, on the east side of Princes Street and west of the remains of St Martin-Le-Grand Church. Unfortunately most of the structure had been destroyed by later graves and a large Medieval pit, but the surviving features consisted of parts of the north and west sides and corner, ten stake holes, rubble packing near the walls and fragments of carbonised wood suggesting planked walls on both the north and west sides. Evidence of a fire which destroyed this hut is represented by these carbonised planks and carbonised wood found in association with the stake holes, as well as burnt debris covering the extent of the structure. (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information)

Monument Types

• GRUBENHAUS (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 700 AD to 999 AD)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Roman - 300 AD? to 409 AD)
• LOOMWEIGHT (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 800 AD to 999 AD)

Full description

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(Summarised from publication)

This structure was located in an area which, at the time formed part of the disused cemetery of St Mary's, on the east side of Prices Street and west of the remains of St Martin-Le-Grand Church. Unfortunately most of the structure had been destroyed by later graves and a large Medieval pit, but the surviving features consisted of parts of the north and west sides and corner, ten stake holes, rubble packing near the walls and fragments of carbonised wood suggesting planked walls on both the north and west sides. Evidence of a fire which destroyed this hut is represented by these carbonised planks and carbonised wood found in association with the stake holes, as well as burnt debris covering the extent of the structure.

Overlying the floor and burnt walls of the hut was a thick layer of loam with burnt daub fragemnts, it is likely that this daub formed part of the structure but none was left in situ. A hill-wash deposit covered the burnt, daub and occupation deposits within the hut, this contained material datable to the 12th century, this, alongside the fill of the large Medieval pit which cuts a substantial section of the hut and contained pottery dating to the 12th-13th century, suggests a date of the 9-th-10th century for the final destruction of this hut. (1)

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

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