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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1757 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval Dump and boundary wall, Church Street, Dover |
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Summary
During work undertaken at war damaged sites across Dover in 1945-47 a Medieval boundary wall and dump containing material dating to the late 12th and 13th century were located on the eastern side of Church Street, Dover. (location accurate to the nearest 5m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 31973 41482 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- REFUSE DISPOSAL SITE (Medieval - 1100 AD? to 1299 AD)
- WALL (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1299 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 100 AD? to 299 AD?)
- COUNTER (Medieval - 1100 AD? to 1299 AD?)
- PIN (Medieval - 1100 AD? to 1299 AD?)
- SHERD (Medieval - 1100 AD? to 1299 AD?)
Full description
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During work undertaken at war damaged sites across Dover in 1945-47 a Medieval wall of large chalk blocks whose foundations cut into the Roman levels below, but which continue up until cut off by the modern basement floor. An 0.45m level of clear sand topped with pebbles lies against this wall on the
east and above it is a dump of late 12th- and 13th-century rubbish levelling up the ground until sealed by a puddled chalk floor of an early post medieval date. The finds from this dump include a Medieval counter and two fragmentary bone pins alongside residual roman pottery. (1)
<1> Leslie Murray Threipland and K. A. Steer., 1951, Archaeologia Cantiana: Excavations at Dover 1945-47. Vol. 64 (Article in serial). SKE31830.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Leslie Murray Threipland and K. A. Steer.. 1951. Archaeologia Cantiana: Excavations at Dover 1945-47. Vol. 64. Vol. 64 pp. 130-149. |
