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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1663 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Road between barracks (B38) of the CLBR fort II, located at the Car Park Site, Dover |
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Summary
During extensive rescue excavations undertaken across Dover’s Town centre by Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, substantial remains of the Classis Britannica fort were uncovered and recorded. Excavations in 1970 in an area which was originally occupied by a small car park on the north side of Queens Street revealed that the area between two barrack blocks (B20 and B21), totalling a distance of about 7m, was occupied by a metalled road. This had been heavily truncated by later activity at the site but enough remained to ascertain that there had been at least five layers of re metalling, giving a total depth of 1.4m and suggesting long and frequent use of this road. (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 31859 41376 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ROAD (Pebble metalled road, Roman - 125 AD to 210 AD)
Associated Finds
- (Roman - 125 AD? to 210 AD?)
- CARVING (Roman - 125 AD? to 210 AD?)
- PIN (Roman - 125 AD? to 210 AD?)
Full description
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(Summarised from publication)
During extensive rescue excavations undertaken across Dover’s Town centre by Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, substantial remains of the Classis Britannica fort were uncovered and recorded. Excavations in 1970 in an area which was originally occupied by a small car park on the north side of Queens Street revealed that the area between two barrack blocks (B20 and B21), totalling a distance of about 7m, was occupied by a metalled road. This had been heavily truncated by later activity at the site but enough remained to ascertain that there had been at least five layers of re metalling, giving a total depth of 1.4m and suggesting long and frequent use of this road.
The site appears to have been levelled and covered with a layer of chalk rubble before the first layer of pebble metalling was laid. The metalling is cut in numerous places by a series of drains (B63-68). (1)
Philp, B. J., 1981, The Excavation of the Roman Forts of the Classis Britannica at Dover 1970-1977 (Monograph). SKE7863.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Philp, B. J.. 1981. The Excavation of the Roman Forts of the Classis Britannica at Dover 1970-1977. |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 2 | Part of: Classis Britannica Fort I and II, Roman 2nd century Fort, Dover (Monument) |
