Keevill C. and Keevill, G. (2021). Rochester Cathedral cloister - Report on the excavation of three drainage test pits in the Garth. Keevill Heritage Ltd. https://doi.org/10.5284/1100825. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Rochester Cathedral cloister - Report on the excavation of three drainage test pits in the Garth
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Series:		 Keevill Heritage Consultancy unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Keevill Heritage Ltd undertook small-scale excavations in the Scheduled cloister garth at Rochester Cathedral on 19-20 July 2021 for the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. Three 0.6m-square test pits were excavated to a maximum depth of 0.9m on the western side of the garth so that the water percolation rate could be measured. The pits encountered little more than rubble layers of the post-medieval period, although a few finds of floor and roof tile most probably derived from late medieval buildings and surfaces around the cloister. A rubble layer at the bottom of pit 2 was probably from demolition of the west cloister range in c 1805. The soil immediately above this is interpreted as from laying out formal gardens around a new Prebendal House, built in the south-west corner of the cloister as soon as the west range had been demolished. The garden soil was also seen in pit 1. Further demolition rubble above these layers probably derived from the Prebendal House - demolished in 1937. A rubble layer was also found in the third pit, but this was much thicker and unconsolidated. It might represent debris left when Sir George Gilbert Scott built a flying buttress in the north-west corner of the cloister to support the leaning outer wall of the South Quire Aisle. The excavations were (deliberately) not deep enough to expose significant archaeological remains. The small assemblage of artefacts from the three pits includes a few pieces of late medieval or early post-medieval building rubble. A small amount of post-medieval pottery and clay pipe was also found. A flint flake, probably of earlier prehistoric date, was a surprising find: it must be residual.
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Author:		 Keevill C
Graham Keevill
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Publisher:		 Keevill Heritage Ltd
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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Parish: Medway, unparished area
District: Medway
Country: England
County: Kent
Grid Reference: 574258, 168470 (Easting, Northing)
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TILE (Object England)
MEDIEVAL TILE (Tag)
TEST PIT (Event)
CLOISTER (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL CLOISTER (Tag)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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Created Date:		 21 Nov 2022