Monument record TR 34 SW 1203 - Chalk block drain associated with barrack block 23 of the Classis Britannica fort II

Trench 14 lay just inside the east gate of the fort near the south west corner of Building 23, a barrack block and within the road B39 (numbers taken from Philp's analysis of the site during the 1970's) (1). A thin hard packed layer of water-worn pebbles on a base of chalk was succeeded by 0.1m of clean silt and then by a north-south drain built of chalk blocks. The silt contained the only dating evidence, a single sherd of samian pottery (AD 190-200) (2)

<1> Philp, B. J., 1981, The Excavation of the Roman Forts of the Classis Britannica at Dover 1970-1977 (Monograph). SKE7863.

<2> Wilkinson, D. R. P., 1995, Archaeologia Cantiana, Excavations on the White Cliffs Experience site, Dover, 1988-91. Vol. 114 (Article in serial). SKE31729.