Source/Archive record SCH8401 - Proposed Alterations at The Old Palace, The Groves, Chester: An Archaeological Evaluation

Report on evaluation trenches at site of a extension to a listed building, within the Chester AAI. The results have demonstrated that, amongst later disturbances related to both quarrying activities and service trench cutting, intact archaeology, dating to both the Roman and post-medieval periods, survives. On the west side of the Old Palace, islands of Roman archaeology remain intact at a shallow level between deep, modern disturbances and, in the central part of the site on the south side, there are clear indications that Roman deposits and the remains of significant structures survive, beneath a non-archaeological overburden of varying thickness. In the south-east part of the Palace’s grounds, below-ground post-medieval remains associated with structures and the layout of the formal gardens, were identified; no earlier archaeology was observed in this general location.