Find Spot record 8030/35 - Roman Finds, Gaumont Picture Palace, Brook Street

Many fragments of first and second century pottery, including some Samian ware, was recovered from the site of the Gaumont Picture Palace, Brook Street, during the 1940s (1). The assemblage represents casual finds by workmen at the site of a non-archaeological intervention, and no other information is available on the context from which it was recovered. The period covered by these sherds dates from the late first to the second half of the second century (1).

<1> n/a, 1948, Abstract of Proceedings, Newstead R 1946 36/72-3 (Article in Journal). SCH5767.

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/172 Petch D F 1987 (Book). SCH3556.