Monument record 11493 - Excavated Post Medieval Garden Features, The Old Palace

<1> Earthworks Archaeological Services, 2017, Proposed Alterations at The Old Palace, The Groves, Chester: An Archaeological Evaluation, R4126 (Client Report). SCH8401.

In May 2017 an archaeological evaluation recorded post medieval garden-related features (trench 5) at The Old Palace, Chester. The eastern part of trench 5 contained wall features and a stone and brick culvert associated with the later post-medieval development of the site. The north-west to south-east aligned sandstone wall can be related with some confidence to a garden wall shown in some detail on cartographic sources, including Samuel Neele’s Plan of Chester 1810 and John Wood’s Map of Chester of 1833; these walls persisted into the late 19th century and are depicted on the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of Chester of 1875 (surveyed 1874). A small stretch of brick wall, abutting the sandstone wall, represents the partially-surviving foundations to a small outbuilding or similar structure. These structural remains represent surviving garden-related archaeology associated with the late post-medieval development of the site.