Site record GDV96
Site name
Site location
165 Great Dover Street, SE1
Borough
Southwark
Year
1996
Greater London SMR No.
Location
Latitude: 51.4985172 Longitude: -0.0899406
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National Grid Ref.
TQ32687946
Organisation
MOLAS
Type of fieldwork
evaluation, excavation, watching brief
Archaeological periods
Roman
Summary
See Also: 'London Archaeologist Round-up 1996': Above the natural brickearth road gravels and associated NW-SE ditches are identified as part of Roman Watling Street. Several field boundary ditches were also recorded, succeeded by a large timber, piled building and timber-lined well. The area was then used as a cemetery and four structures were built parallel to the road. The first was a walled enclosure with 5 inhumations around a central mortar plinth, possibly the base of a sarcophagus or a monument. The second structure was a small masonry building which could have been a mausoleum; then a large walled enclosure around a robbed masonry structure, offset from the centre and associated with several fragments of moulded stone, including a stone pine cone. A buried amphora and a rubble-filled feature, which may have been the base of a monument, and at least two inhumations, were also found within this enclosure. In the adjacent section of the roadside ditch a stone head of a river god was found. The fourth structure was a masonry building which could have been the inner part of another large enclosure. To the SW of these structures were several cremations in pots, further inhumations, three 'plaster' burials, perhaps a family group, and a cremation pit containing many lamps and pots.
See Also: 'London Archaeologist Round-up 1997': a watching brief was carried out to monitor the construction of a drain. A very narrow trench exposed mainly Roman cut features: pits, a ditch and a possible infilled quarry cut.
Related sites:
None linked
No. of Related publications:
2 publication(s).
165 Great Dover Street, SE1 (1997-07). Mackinder, A.T. (Site Code: GDV96 , archive report). Published by Museum of London Archaeology Service
A Romano-British cemetery on Watling Street: excavations at 165 Great Dover Street, Southwark, London
MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 4 (2000). Mackinder, Anthony (Site code: GDV96, book). Published by London: Museum of London Archaeology Service
Total Registered Find records in database
0
Total Bulk Find records in database
0
Deposited Archive Contents:
Site, Post-ex
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