Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

An urned cremation burial was identified in the center of the earlier mid Bronze Age bell barrows. The burial was cut by a later Roman Road. The pot was identified as a Deverel-Rimbury Bucket Urn, marked by a single cereal grain impression.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

Monument Types

• BELL BARROW (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 1001 BC? (at some time))
• CREMATION (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds

• BURIAL URN (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
• BURNT FLINT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Full description

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During excavation work on the line of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, close to Springhead, two overlapping ring-ditches representing barrows were found at the head of the Ebbsfleet Valley.

An urned cremation burial was identified in the center of the earlier mid Bronze Age bell barrows. The burial was cut by a later Roman Road. The pot was identified as a Deverel-Rimbury Bucket Urn, marked by a single cereal grain impression.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information

Wenban-Smith FF, et al.,, 2012, Prehistoric Ebbsfleet: Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed 1 and STDR 4. (Monograph). SKE32262.

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2003, Channel Tunel Rail Link Archaeological works at Springhead Roman Town (ARC SPH00): interim fieldwork report (Unpublished document). SKE31600.

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