Source/Archive record SCH5326 - Proposed Improvements to the Grosvenor Hotel Yard, Rear of the City Walls on St John Street, Chester: Archaeological Assessment

In July 2010, prior to the commencement of improvement works, a rapid archaeological assessment was undertaken in the narrow passageway between the Grosvenor Hotel and the recently reconsstructed section of city wall to the rear of properties fronting onto St John Street, Chester. Three archaeological test pits were excavated up against an offset course at the base of the city wall on its west side. A stratigraphically important soil layer which separates the upstanding city wall from the offset course below was exposed but not investigated in detail. The remains of post-medieval structures and in situ deposits of roman or sub-Roman date were also identified. The assessment has confirmed that archaeology of high quality survives along the narrow strip of ground between the Grosvenor Hotel and the city wall.