Title: |
Old Timber Yard, Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent. Archaeological Watching Brief |
Number of Pages: |
14 |
Biblio Note |
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Publication Type: |
Report
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Abstract: |
An archaeological watching brief was undertaken in advance of the construction of new housing. The watching brief confirmed, as suggested by the earlier evaluation, that much of the site had been subject to extensive truncation during terracing of the hillside to create building platforms for former industrial structures on the site. Profiles of the former land surface were seen to survive under College Road, as ground on the down-slope side of the terraces had needed to be made up. Remedial works to the eastern perimeter walls showed the construction of the main perimeter wall with two subsidiary internal walls. Together these walls had two probable functions; firstly to assist retaining the ground up slope, and outside the dockyard (where Dock Road currently ran), and secondly to provide access ways (possibly from Dock Road) to the newly acquired areas of the dockyard. All the walls were thought to be contemporary, with some later alterations, and related to the dockyards expansion eastwards in 1811, and the modernisation of the timber yards and timber conversion facilities at Chatham by the installation of Brunel's Steam Saw Mills between 1812 and 1814. [Au(abr)] |
Author: |
Jonathan Hiller
Ben Ford
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Publisher: |
Oxford Archaeology
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Year of Publication: |
2002
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Locations: |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Dock Road |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Chatham |
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Subjects / Periods: |
1811 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
1814 Auabr (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2002
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: OLD TIMBER YARD, HISTORIC DOCKYARD, CHATHAM Study area: Investigation type: Post-determination/Research District: Medway UA Monument: WALL. Post-medieval (1540-1901) Ngr: TQ76146924 Parish: Postcode: ME4 4BH
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Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |