Numerous sherds of pottery datable to the Medieval and early post medieval periods were recovered from within colluvial layers during an archaeological evaluation at 70 Maison Dieu Road, Dover. The recovered vessel material predominantly consists of bodysherds – except for 1 handle fragment. Most of the earlier, Medieval, material comprises a rather innocuous collection of cooking-pot or pan sherds representing a thin spread of sporadic domestic discards throughout the thirteenth century and into, at least, the earlier fourteenth century. With the exception of the (?) Ashford/Wealden jug handle, all these sherds are Canterbury sandy ware products. Although the sample size is small - the mid-later fourteenth century is not obviously represented and the sequence ends with a set of principally fifteenth into early sixteenth century orange-buff or pink/cream-buff Wealden or Waalden-type variably sandy wares. These are mostly from olive/purple-green glazed jug sherds. The similarity of these with no other contemporary ware types recorded, suggests that both context-assemblages represent discards from the same household – and one that had a distinct preference for the bright oxidised colouring of Wealden-type products, compared with the duller range of colours among contemporary Canterbury Tyler Hill products. No ceramic material later than c.1525/1550 AD was recovered. (1)

<1> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2011, An Archaeological Evaluation on land at the Former Royal Mail Sorting Office, 70 Maison Dieu Road, Dover, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31846.