Queen Mary Quarter and East Gate, former Royal Naval College SE10 TQ 3869 7792 MoLAS (Julian Bowsher) excavation and watching brief November 1999- May 2000 The University of Greenwich RNM99
This programme involved the excavation of Trench 10 and a watching brief covering Trenches 8, 9, 11 and 12.
Trench 8 revealed a ?16th century wall, probably associated with the Office of Works compound, and later floor surfaces abutting it. An east-west wall dating to c.1730 was the northern retaining wall of the drying yards east of the Queen Mary Quarter.
Trench 9 was a very small intervention against the south wall of the Queen Mary Quarter and revealed only part of the stonework associated with its construction – late 17th/early 18th century.
Trench 10 was excavated in advance of the construction of an electrical sub-station. Overlying natural deposits were dumps probably associated with the near by (but as yet unlocated) "plombery". At the eastern end of the trench was a deep late 17th century brick lined cess pit, almost certainly part of "Captain Sanderson’s House". At the western end of the trench was the corner of one of the large cess pits built in the 1730s to serve the Queen Mary Quarter.
Trench 11 revealed a wall from a known 17th century house ("Captain Guy’s"), truncated by the foundations of the Queen Mary quarter.
Trench 12 revealed little other than another wall of Captain Guy’ house and the western retaining wall to the drying yard.