Thesaurus Term/Concept: LAYER

Identifier 143502
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note An archaeological unit of soil in a horizontal plane which may seal features or be cut through by other features.

Broader Terms/Concepts (1)

Related Terms/Concepts (1)

Narrower Terms/Concepts (3)

Instances/Examples (204)

Context Record
Monument Type MCH19187 13th-14th Century industrial activity at 25 Bridge Street (phase 4) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19221 17th century deposit at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19274 17th century rubble layer at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21200 18th century features at No 74 Lower Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19196 18th century garden features at Lower Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19195 18th century soil layers at Union Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20081 18th century tanning activity at Russell Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20348 Accumulation of Dumped Post Medieval Sediment, Dee House Site (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20600 cobbled surface at Queen’s Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16622 Cultivation Soil Layer, George Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16625 Cultivation Soil Layer, Rylands Garage (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18661 Dark Earth Layer, Hunter Street School (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20092 Disturbed Medieval / Post Medieval Rubbish Layer, St Mary's Hill (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20102 Early Eighteenth Century Rubbish in Medieval Moat, Chester Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MCH22367 Early Iron Age settlement at Eddisbury (Monument)
Monument Type MCH22369 Early Medieval activity at Kelsborrow (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18951 Early Post Medieval Activity and Pits, 30 - 42 Nicholas Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20325 Early Post Medieval Pits and Features, The Groves and Souter's Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18380 Early Roman construction activity at Crook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18370 Early Roman construction activity at Goss Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18639 Early Roman rubbish dumping at Hunter Street Phase 1 (insula 21) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH848 Early Saxon Cultivation Layer and Ditches, 26 - 42 Lower Bridge Street (Phase I) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18542 Early third century 'hiatus period' at the Grosvenor Centre (Phase 5) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18127 Edgar's Field - First to Third Century Quarry, and Quarrying Debris (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19180 Evidence of Early Medieval Levelling, Ground Preparation of Franciscan Friars Site (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18832 Evidence of Post Medieval Light Industrial Activities, Queen's School (City Walls Road) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18684 Evidence of Saxon Stone Robbing and Activities (Dark Earth Layer), Crook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18729 Evidence of Saxon Stone Robbing, Commonhall Village, Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18364 Evidence of the Roman central courtyard at the early 'Elliptical' building (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18064 First to Second Century Cultivation Soil, West Cheshire College (Monument)
Monument Type MCH408 Fortress Baths - possible colonnade on Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20748 Fourteenth to Fifteenth Century Infilling of Medieval Town Ditch, Site of Former Library, St John Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18005 Fourth Century Demolition Layer, Duke Street (Old Drill Hall) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18066 Handbridge Roman Cemetery - Potential Funerary Monument, West Cheshire College (Monument)
Monument Type MCH8237 Helsby Hillfort, 250m NW of Harmers Lake Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18995 Indeterminate Post Medieval Deposit / Soil Accumulation, Royal Infirmary (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18436 Industrial activity at Kings Buildings (Monument)
Monument Type MCH8384 Kelsborrow promontory fort on Castle Hill 300m SW Castle Hill Frm (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20100 Late Eighteenth Century Quarry Waste in Medieval Moat, Chester Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18438 Late Iron Age ‘Cord-Rig’, Possible Fence Line and Trackway, Amphitheatre (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18979 Late medieval building at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20324 Late Medieval Rubbish Deposits, The Groves and Souter's Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH703 Late medieval soil accumulation at Water Tower Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18693 Late Roman - Saxon Cultivation Layer (Dark Earth Layer), Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18572 Late Roman - Saxon Soil Horizon (Dark Earth Layer), Hamilton Place (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18655 Late Roman burnt layer at Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18643 Late Roman layer at Hunter Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18384 Late Roman/Saxon layer at Crook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18065 Later Roman Cultivation Soil, West Cheshire College (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18374 Limited activity in the second century (Phase 3b) hiatus layer (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16774 Mansio - Rubbish Deposits and Pit Phase (11 - 15 Castle Street) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19167 medieval activity at Hamilton House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH727 Medieval cultivation soils at Cuppin Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH23686 Medieval Deposit and Feature at Church Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18945 medieval ditch fill at Frodsham Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19198 medieval features at Coach & Horses (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21199 Medieval features at No 20 Lower Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20585 Medieval industrial activity at Ebury Place (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20490 Medieval infill of the Roman ditch at the south east angle tower (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21286 Medieval kiln or oven, Pepper Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21284 Medieval occupation at Pepper Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20805 Medieval Period Infilling of Eastern Medieval Defensive Ditch, 5 - 7 Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20806 Medieval Period Infilling of Eastern Medieval Defensive Ditch, Foregate Street Beyond Eastgate (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19275 Medieval sandstone feature from Eastgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19042 medieval soil accumulation at Princess Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18874 Medieval Soil Horizon, Building Rubble and Masonry, Nun's Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19169 medieval soil layer at Hamilton House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20339 Medieval Soil Layer, South-east Grosvenor Park Boundary Wall (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19108 medieval soil layers and pits at Commonhall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH724 Medieval strip property on Princess Street: Building (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20311 Medieval to Post Medieval Cultivation Horizon, North-east Grosvenor Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20307 Medieval to Post Medieval Cultivation Layers and Pit, South-west of Dee House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19567 Medieval Wall and Rubbish Deposits, 1 Abbey Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18605 Mid second century 'military hiatus’ period at the Grosvenor Centre (phase 3) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21064 Nineteenth Century Demolition Layer, Cathedral Car Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19589 Nineteenth Century Ground Levelling Deposits, Cathedral Grounds (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20599 Possible Demolition Layer of Medieval City Wall, 3 - 5 Shipgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19408 Possible Disturbed Moat Feature, Grosvenor Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18648 Possible Late Iron Age activity at Pepper Street (Find Spot)
Monument Type MCH19210 possible medieval structure at St Olave Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18731 Possible Post-Roman / Saxon Rubbish Deposits (Dark Earth Layer), Northgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18068 Possible Roman Cultivation Layer, the Ship Inn (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16635 Possible Roman industrial activity at Nun's Field (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21078 Possible Roman surface at Hamilton Place (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21080 Possible Roman surface at Northgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21079 Possible Roman surface at the Gateway Theatre (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19311 Possible Saxon 'Dark Earth' Layer, 21 - 23 Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18610 Possible Saxon Cultivation Layer, 1 Abbey Green (Monument)
Monument Type MCH830 Possible Saxon Cultivation Layer, Northgate Brewery (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20543 Possible Seventeenth Century Rubbish Pit and Soil Layers, City Walls, St John Street Area (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19009 Post medieval accumulation layer at Linenhall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19237 post medieval activity at 15-23 Bridge Street (Phase 6 to 8) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19236 post medieval activity at 25 Bridge Street (Phase 6 to 8) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19235 post medieval activity at 27 Bridge Street (Phase 6 to 8) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19112 post medieval activity at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19172 Post medieval activity at Hamilton House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19238 Post medieval activity to the rear of Newgate Street (Phase 6 to 8) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19219 Post medieval buildings at 54-60 Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18879 Post Medieval Cultivation Horizon, 1 Stanley Place (Monument)
Monument Type MCH10998 Post Medieval Cultivation Horizon, Linenhall Stables (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19400 Post Medieval Demolition Layer or Dumped Deposits, City Walls Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20770 Post medieval deposits at Brook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH25052 Post Medieval Deposits at rear of 43 Whitefriars, Chester (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18971 post medieval features at 49 Northgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19272 Post medieval features at Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19199 post medieval features at Coach & Horses (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19126 post medieval features at Forest street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21120 Post medieval features at Frodsham Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20188 Post medieval features from New Crane Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20804 Post Medieval Fill of Possible Medieval Town Ditch, Roman Gardens (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19557 Post Medieval Fills of Subterranean Cavity, St Werburgh Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21053 Post Medieval Garden or Cultivation Soil, Grosvenor Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20313 Post Medieval Garden Soils, West of Dee House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18980 Post medieval industrial activity at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19139 post medieval layer at Northgate Street east (Monument)
Monument Type MCH815 Post medieval layer at the SE Angle of the Roman fortress (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20932 Post Medieval Layer, Nun's Road and Blackfriars (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19371 Post Medieval Made Ground / Make Up Layer, Nicholas Street Mews (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18963 Post medieval pits at St Andrew’s Church (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19227 post medieval smithing at Crook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19127 Post Medieval Soil Horizon, Pit and Features, Nun's Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18939 Post Medieval Soil Layer and Cut Features, St Martin's Lodge, Nicholas Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18944 post medieval soil layer at Frodsham Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19224 post medieval soil layer at Frodsham Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19173 post medieval soil layer at Hamilton House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19402 Post Medieval Soil Layer, Northgate Street near Abbey Gate (Monument)
Monument Type MCH23592 Post medieval soil layer, Union Street, Chester (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19153 post medieval soils at Northgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18815 Post Medieval Wall Foundation, Royal Infirmary (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19345 Post Medieval Wall, Surface and Levelling Layer, Nicholas Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19262 Post Roman Dark Earth Layer and Stone Robbing, Watergate House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18277 Pre Roman soil deposits at Eastgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20343 Probable Medieval Soil Layer, Dee House Site (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20598 Quarry fill at the Ship Inn, Handbridge (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18014 Redeposited Roman Building Debris, St Mary's Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18306 Roman 'hiatus layer' across the Deanery Field site (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18349 Roman 'military hiatus' layer at Folliot House (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18483 Roman 'military hiatus' layer at Hunter Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18426 Roman 'military hiatus' layer at the site of the Elliptical building. (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18570 Roman ‘military hiatus’ layer at Crook Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18578 Roman ‘military hiatus’ layer at St Martin’s Fields (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18492 Roman activity at Hunter Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18448 Roman Alleyway and Gullies, Former Grosvenor Club, Vicar's Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18197 Roman Barracks Block (praetentura west) at Bolland’s Court (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16697 Roman Clay deposit at Nicholas Street Mews (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21039 Roman collapse layer at St John Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16751 Roman Cultivation Layer, 14 - 18 Duke Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18056 Roman Cultivation Layer, Greenbank, Eaton Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18058 Roman Cultivation Soils and Buried Soil Horizons, Edgar's Field (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16713 Roman cultivation soils from the Linenhall Stables (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18340 Roman cut feature at Princess Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH23630 Roman demolition layer at Hunter Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18630 Roman demolition layer at the 'Elliptical' building site (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16661 Roman deposit layer at Callin Court (phase 2) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH248 Roman deposits and Walls, Opposite ABC Cinema, Foregate Street North (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16735 Roman Deposits Containing Pottery, The Groves and Souter’s Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20929 Roman Deposits, Northern Roman Gardens (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16721 Roman Deposits, Russell Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19291 Roman features at Northgate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21224 Roman features at Trinity Hall (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16662 Roman first century activity at Callin Court (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18818 Roman hypocaust at Water Tower Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16603 Roman Layer and Undated Ditch, The Bars (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18461 Roman layer at Commonhall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16597 Roman layer at Dee Hills Park, Boughton (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16581 Roman Layer at Garden Lane Car Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18557 Roman layer at Grosvenor Hotel Yard (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18507 Roman layer at Kaleyard Cottage (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19267 Roman layer at Nicholas Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18506 Roman layer at the Kaleyards (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16723 Roman Layer, St Olave's Church (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18555 Roman mortar layer at the Town Hall (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19367 Roman Pit Fill or Dumped Material pre-dating Roman Road, Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18494 Roman rampart building (No 18) at Pepper Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16731 Roman Rubbish / Tip Deposits, West of Souter's Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18013 Roman Rubbish Deposits, 5 Bridge Place (Monument)
Monument Type MCH17984 Roman Rubbish Deposits, 76 Lower Bridge Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18341 Roman rubble layer at Hunter Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16604 Roman Sandstone Surface, Grosvenor Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16606 Roman Sandstone Surface, Grosvenor Park (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18394 Roman Soil horizon at Chester Cathedral (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19269 Roman soil horizon at Grey Friars (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16741 Roman Soil Layer, Steam Mill Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18062 Roman structure (latera praetorii east) at Abbey Square (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21019 Roman walls at Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH21022 Sandstone surface from 67 Handbridge (Monument)
Monument Type MCH421 Saxon Cultivation Layer, Pits and Possible Post Holes, Magistrates Court, Cuppin Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18195 Saxon Occupation Layer (Dark Earth Layer) and Former Fortress Baths Collapse (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18105 Saxon Soil Horizon (Dark Earth Layer), 12 - 22 Commonhall Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18725 Saxon Soil Horizon (Dark Earth Layer), South Commonhall Street, Pierpoint Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH834 Saxon Stone Robbing and Possible Cultivation Layer (Dark Earth Layer), Goss Street North (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16756 Second - Third Century Burnt Horizon, 6 - 10 Lower Bridge Street (Falcon Public House) (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19323 Seventeenth / Eighteenth Century Dumped Material, Watergate (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19592 Seventeenth / Eighteenth Century Soil Layer, St Werburgh Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20798 Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Land Surfaces, Roman Gardens, Souters Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19632 Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Rubbish Deposit (Monument)
Monument Type MCH16770 Soil Layer Containing Roman Finds, Littlewoods, 29 - 35 Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18718 Soil Layer Containing Saxon Pottery, 32 - 36 Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH20545 Soil Layer, City Walls, Grosvenor Hotel Yard (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19399 Stone Wall and Post Medieval Deposits, City Walls Road (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18883 Thick Soil Accumulation in Post Medieval Period, 2 Blackfriars Court (Monument)
Monument Type MCH17985 Third Century Wall Footing, Stone Drain and Cobbled Laneway, 46 - 50 Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH19215 undated quarry waste from Foregate Street (Monument)
Monument Type MCH18593 Undated soil layer at Northgate Street (Monument)