More information : (TR 15415780 - The Great Court. TR 15445787 - The Outer Court, St Augustine's Abbey - see illustration card for plan). The Great Court, St Augustine's Abbey, C11/C12, was enlarged in the late C13 and the main service buildings relocated in an outer court to the north. (1-4) A sequence of early C14 outer court metallings, Medieval drains, early medieval pits, and Anglo-Saxon features were recorded during excavations, 1983-4, by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The sequence of deposits and features exposed indicate that parts of the college grounds may have been occupied from the Middle Anglo- Saxon period onwards. Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that a cemetery and extra-mural agricultural area existed here in the Roman period. (5-7)
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