Liverpool Castle

[Waterways]

I believe horizontal timber stays were found anchoring the dock walls to the surrounding rock/silt/mud (rather than the dock walls holding back large volumes of infill). This suggests the dock was substantially dug into the muddy banks or maybe half dug in as a 'cut and fill' and there would thus have been minimal fill. I would have thought the rest of the creek almost filled itself in as the creek would not have carried the silt away any longer. Maybe there is a culvert somewhere carrying the original creek, perhaps running into the dock under John Lewis?

Perhaps someone here has the archaeological report from the recent diggings?

The timbers are to key the walls into the in-fill. The walls would have been built with the timber laid and then in-filled around the walls. Boats would lay up fro Paradise St/Lord St junction and even to Williamson square, although only small boast past the junction.