During excavations undertaken by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, ahead of the rebuilding of the Townwall Street filling Station, Dover, a complex series of stratified archaeological deposits were revealed representing activity at th0e site between the early Medieval period and later post medieval periods. Period 1; 1175-1300 is the first time intensive colonisation of the site began (before had been only superficial activity within the area; Period 0). A series of building plots was established, each occupied by a succession of timber or stone structures, in all 8 individual building plots were identified and five of these were examined in detail. Plot G was a samll plot between E and H and contained a succession of ten individual buildings. Buildings 8 and 17 were the sixth to tenth in the succession and may be dated to c. 1175-1275.

Building 19 was smaller than the previous buildings and constructed further to the north west. It consisted of a single rammed chalk floor with an overlying occupation layer. In fact, all of buildings 19 to 23 consist of small areas of patchy rammed chalk flooring in the same approximate area, some with associated occupation layers. The later buildings (22 and 23) are cut by later, post medieval, features. (1)

<1> Keith Parfitt, Barry Corke and John Cotter, 2006, Townwall Street, Dover: Excavations 1996 (Monograph). SKE31840.