A watching brief on trenches for a major new water pipeline for Dover. This is the second phase of works (there were three in total). Area 4 includes James' Street. The pipe trench showed there had been significant disruption to archaeological deposits in this area. The disturbance was caused by cellars of post medieval houses which had originally fronted onto St. James' Street. There was also disturbance by numerous recent service trenches. The archaeology was thus poorly preserved here. This important street of Medieval and post medieval Dover was largely demolished in the post war redevelopment of the town. Victorian disturbance is represented by numerous contexts, some fragments of post medieval floors survived and one post medieval wall and probably formed part of a cellar. Generally the archaeological deposits are heavily truncated. (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1997, The Dover Spine Main: A Watching Brief (Unpublished document). SKE7159.