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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1689 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bastion (No 2) of the late Roman Saxon Shore fort, located at the Burial Ground site, Dover |
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Summary
During a series of extensive rescue excavations, ahead of development in Dover’s town centre, undertaken by Kent Archaeological Rescue unit a series of features relating to the late Roman Saxon Shore Fort were excavated and recorded. During these excavations a total of seven of the Shore Forts external bastions were located and excavated. This includes the first bastion along the west wall which was located during excavations in a large area covering most of the disused burial ground of St. Martin-Le-Grand's church (Burial Ground site). (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 31844 41395 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BASTION (western bastion of the shore fort, Roman - 240 AD to 330 AD)
Full description
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(Summarised from publication)
During a series of extensive rescue excavations, ahead of development in Dover’s town centre, undertaken by Kent Archaeological Rescue unit a series of features relating to the late Roman Saxon Shore Fort were excavated and recorded. During these excavations a total of seven of the Shore Forts external bastions were located and excavated. This includes the first bastion along the west wall which was located during excavations in a large area covering most of the disused burial ground of St. Martin-Le-Grand's church (Burial Ground site).
This bastion lay about 30m north of the south-west corner bastion, and like the corner bastion had again been heavily robbed and cut by later features, mostly graves. Unlike the corner bastion however, this was a later addition to the original for wall. Only the foundations survived to a maximum height of 0.7m these were situated directly above the earlier roman barrack block (B31). They suggested an overall length (north-south) of 7m and width of about 4.5m. These remains were constructed of alternating layers of rammed chalk and flint. (1)
<1> Brian Philp, The Discovery and Excavation of the Roman Shore Fort at Dover, Kent (Monograph). SKE32061.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Brian Philp. The Discovery and Excavation of the Roman Shore Fort at Dover, Kent. |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 1742 | Part of: Projected line of the Roman Saxon Shore Fort walls and bastions, Dover. (Monument) |
| TR 34 SW 100 | Part of: Site of a Roman Saxon Shore Fort (3rd-4th century), Dover (Monument) |
