Source/Archive record SCH6068 - Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1992

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Type Article in Journal
Title Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland in 1992
Author/Originator
Journal
Date/Year 1993

Abstract/Summary

Includes notes on two archaeological evaluations in Chester, one at the Cheshire Royal Infirmary where a pit containing a considerable quantity of debris from a clay tobacco pipe kiln with material dated variously to 1650-80 and to the nineteenth century. The second notes two trenches at 32-6 Foregate Street, inside the New Union Hall in addition to a standing building survey. A stone lined medieval cellar and a burnt horizon that may date to the Civil War was revealed in the excavation.

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Description

Pages 205 - 296. Chester UAD Project

Location

CHER Library

Referenced Monuments (7)

  • Large Pit Containing Dumped Seventeenth Century Pipe Manufacturing Waste, Royal Infirmary (Monument)
  • Late medieval building at Foregate Street (Monument)
  • Late post medieval building at Foregate Street (Monument)
  • Post Medieval Clay Pipe Kiln, Walls and Pit Features, Royal Infirmary (North) (Monument)
  • Post medieval industrial activity at Foregate Street (Monument)
  • Post medieval industrial activity at Foregate Street (Monument)
  • Union Hall, Foregate Street (Monument)

Referenced Events (2)

  • An Evaluation Excavation at Chester Royal Infirmary, March 1992 (Infirmary Site) (Ref: CHE/CRI92)
  • Excavations at 32 - 36 Foregate Street, Chester in 1991 (Ref: CHE/32FGS91)

Record last edited

Jan 3 2020 3:33PM