Monument record 8474/4 - Roman Pottery and Finds, YMCA Hostel

In 1976, during the construction of a fire escape at the YMCA (Old Bishop's Palace) an assemblage Roman pottery, nails and some glass was recovered. The pottery is datable to a period between c AD 140 - 270/280 and includes Black Burnished ware, Hartshill-Mancetter mortaria, Castor and Rhenish fine ware and Severn Valley ware (1).

No other information on the nature of this intervention, and it is only described by a brief finds report (1).

<1> multiple authors, 1977, Excavation Reports and Sites Observed, 5/33-35 Ward T Carrington P & Rutter J 1977 (Article in Journal). SCH5800.

<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.