Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Aerial photographs show an extensive complex of ditches and enclosures at Letterbox Field, Maydensole Farm. Archaeological evaluation in 1997 and subsequent excavation in 1998/9 discovered an extensive iron age / Roman settlement covering 4 ha. Features included a building occupied til the 4th century which contained infant burials and a pit containing possible animal deposits.

Monument Types

• ENCLOSURE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• PIT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• TRACKWAY (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• ANIMAL BURIAL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• BUILDING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• ASSEMBLAGE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• BRACELET (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• BROOCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• QUERN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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Aerial photographs show an extensive complex of ditches and enclosures at Letterbox Field, Maydensole Farm (1). Archaeological evaluation in 1997 and subsequent excavation in 1998/9 discovered an extensive iron age / Roman settlement covering 4 ha. Features included a building occupied til the 4th century which contained infant burials and a pit containing possible animal deposits. (2-4)

<1> AP (NMR TR 3147/3; 3 6 76) (OS Card Reference). SKE33702.

<2> Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2000, Britannia 31, 2000, p 431 (Article in serial). SKE54626.

<3> Kent archaeological society, 2000, Kent Archaeological Society newsletter 46, 1-5 (Article in serial). SKE54744.

<4> Tony Redding, 1997, Letterbox Field, Whitfield Report (Unpublished document). SKE6676.

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