Monument record TR 34 SW 1628 - Chalk block drain (B55) of the CLBR fort II, located at the Cause is Altered site, Dover

(Summarised from publication)

During extensive rescue excavations undertaken across Dover’s Town centre by Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, substantial remains of the Classis Britannica fort were uncovered and recorded. Excavations in an area which was originally occupied by the Cause Is Altered Public House near Princes Street (Cause Is Altered Site) in 1971, revealed the remains of a chalk block drain, which was traced for a distance of 1m running north-east by south-west.

It runs under the Period two north wall of the barrack block (B20). It seems likely that this formed part of the period one arrangements and that it joined drain B54 somewhere to the south east. It had chalk block sides and base, was 16 to 20cm wide and at least c. 30cm high. (1)

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