Monument record 8546 - Roman east-west road north of barrack block at Princess Street

Traces of a possible road surface was encountered immediately to the north of a barrack block at Princess Street in trench 18 of the excavations (1)

A substantial area of the city was subject to archaeological investigations between 1963 and 1965 involving an area to the rear of the plots on Watergate Street and Northgate Street. A series of 24 trenches were investigated in all under the auspices of Mr Petch from the Grosvenor Museum, sadly however the work has never been published due to financial constraints at the time and the available resource is limited to trench plans and the site archive.

<1> Chester Archaeology, 1963, Crook Street-Princess Street Site Record (Unpublished Report). SCH6563.