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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1704 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bastion (No 3) of the late Roman Saxon Shore fort, located at the Woodstore 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 bastion number 3 which was located on the west wall of the Shore Fort 55m from the south west corner, during excavations within a disused wood store on the south side of Market Street (Woodstore Site). (Location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 31839 41425 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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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 bastion number 3 which was located on the west wall of the Shore Fort 55m from the south west corner, during excavations within a disused wood store on the south side of Market Street (Woodstore Site).
The bastion had been badly robbed and cut by later features and only half of its original plan survived, despite this a clear D shape is suggested 6.5m in (N-S) length and projecting 4.5m from the (robbed) fort wall. It was constructed of tufa and greensand blocks on its external face, of which only a very small amount survived and tufa, flint and chalk set in a hard white mortar at its core. How it joined to the associated fort wall is unknown due to the face that the wall at this location had been completely robbed away, but it is likely that this is one of the integral bastions rather than one of the later additions. (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) |
