The assemblage of ancient Greek pottery sherds from Snargate Street cannot be attributed to a single artefact as two styles are apparent. Four sherds belong to the Red-figure style of pottery painting whilst the single remaining sherd is of Black-figure ware. However, two of the sherds certainly come from one object as they have matching decoration. Black-figure ware is the earlier of the two styles and was particularly common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. Corinth, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, was the principal centre for this style of pottery then later Athens, although other important production sites are known within Greece and also Italy. Red-figure ware developed in Athens about 530–520BC and remained in use until the late 3rd century BC. It replaced the previously dominant style of Black-figure painting within a short space of time. Both Red- and Black-figure wares provide an important pictorial source of mythology and iconography as well as showing day-to-day ancient Greek life. The sewer construction works along Snargate Street, Dover involved the cutting of a sewer trench through the infilled cellars of former buildings rather than their associated back yards. Archaeological monitoring of works at the eastern end of Snargate Street revealed a thick deposit of dark soil that covered an entire cellar floor, located at a depth of about 2.5m below the street level. The ancient Greek pottery sherds were found within these deep deposits, in awkward and cramped conditions. The thick deposit of dark soil contained burnt wood and considerable amounts of mainly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pottery as well as other finds that included broken drinking glasses and wine/beer bottles, brass fittings from furniture (possibly represented by the burnt wood) and nearly pieces of a large carved soapstone bowl. Whilst the pottery sherds were examined by a Greek pottery specialist at the time of excavation, this information has since been misplaced.