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  ancient remains found on Western Heights:
  
  "A few days since the workmen on the Western Heights of Dover came to the foundation of a very ancient fort, supposed to have been built about the same time as the castle was. Captain Ford of the Royal Engineers who has the conducting of the works, has given orders for the whole of the lines to be traced, to ascertain its extent. It is so situated as to command the whole of the roads of Dover, and will make a fine situation for a mortar battery."
  (Kentish Gazette 1807 21st Aug back page)
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  "The ruins discovered by the workmen on Dover Heights seven days back and which discovery was mentioned in our paper of Friday last, is generally thought to be the remains of some chapel built many years since. It certainly cannot have been fortification, as it is not sufficiently extensive for that purpose. The men have been busily employed since clearing away the rubbish, and in digging yesterday they discovered several human bones, some pieces of painted glass, and a very ancient spur. The circumstance of the glass and bones being found strengthens the opinion of its having been some place of devotion. Some of the stones which have been taken up are very curiously carved and the foundation of the same materials filled with small stones about double the size of the modern brick."
  (Kentish Gazette 25 Aug 1807 back page col.4)

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