During works undertaken in association with the re-facing and underpinning of the retaining wall in front of the Unitarian Church, Dover, a small rectangular pier base was cut 3m from the west retaining wall. The pit was 1.3m square and reached a maximum depth of 1.7m below ground level. Two undisturbed layers resting above the natural produced a large quantity of Prehistoric flints. The lower of these two layers comprised a dark brown silty clay, this produced 33 prehistoric struck flints and a quantity of calcined flints. The layer above this consisted of a pale grey-brown silty clay and seemingly represented a buried topsoil layer. This produced another 56 Prehistoric flints, a few calcined flints and five sherds of 'Belgic' pottery datable to the second half of the 1st century A.D, these sherds may be intrusive and derived from the layer above. (1-2)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1995, Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief Off York Street, Dover (Unpublished document). SKE8338.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1995-1996, Canterbury’s Archaeology 1995–1996, Fieldwork: III Kent Sites (Article in serial). SKE32047.