Earls Terrace, Kensington High Street.
TQ 2496 7910; (Alistair Douglas); evaluation; August 1997; Earls Terrace Properties Ltd; ETR97
Four trenches were excavated with natural 'brickearth' recorded at 7.45m OD. An east-west ditch, probably dating to the Roman period, may represent a road side ditch or other field boundary respecting the alignment of the Roman road that is assumed to pre-date Kensington High Street. A ploughsoil was recorded that may date back to Saxon times and possibly Medieval alluvial deposits to the south-west of the site suggest the presence of a water channel. During the post-Medieval period the site appears to have been open fields until it was residentially developed in the early Nineteenth Century.
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