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Monument details

Summary

Site of a Roman building indicated by a surface scatter of stone, tile and brick. Possibly the site of a villa. Excavations in advance of housing development in the vicinity located strong evidence of Iron Age settlement and further Romano-British buildings.

Monument Types

• BUILDING (BUILDING, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 78315168] Roman foundations found 1933 (1) At TQ 78315166, in a freshly ploughed field some 330.0m north east of the site of the Brishing Roman bath-house (TQ 75 SE 1), there is a concentration of ragstone fragments, larger than generally occur in the field, interspersed with pieces of Roman brick and tile. There is a scatter of potsherds mostly RB but some probably IA. The local farmworkers have long suspected a building stood here from the abundence of stone turned up by the plough but nothing else is known to have been found. No further information on the site was obtained at Maidstone Museum. Surveyed at 1:2500. (2) Additional bibliography. (3 - 5) KE 12 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (6-7)

<1> Maidstone Museum Arch 6" (OS Card Reference). SKE46398.

<2> F1 CFW 07.07.60 (OS Card Reference). SKE42459.

<3> Arch Cant 93 1977 224 (P E Oldham) (OS Card Reference). SKE36154.

<4> KAR 25 1971 143 (B Philp) (OS Card Reference). SKE45276.

<5> Arch Cant 82 1967 lv (M J Syddell) (OS Card Reference). SKE35756.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 75 SE 19 - July, 1960 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3970.

<7> Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

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