Monument record 8443 - north-south alley between the baths and barrack structures

Archaeological investigations carried out in 1926-7 by Newstead to the rear of Brown’s Department Store in St Michael’s Row in advance of an eastern extension to that building recorded evidence of Roman structures, believed to be the northern end of a series of barracks on a north-south alignment in the first insula of the Roman fortress.

A layer of gravel immediately to the east of the bath complex was interpreted as a alley on a north-south alignment separating the baths from the barracks in the first insula of the Roman fortress. (1)

<1> Newstead, Robert (Prof.), 1926, Records of Archaeological Finds at Chester, p129-136 (Article in Journal). SCH5955.