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Monument details

HER Number:TR 16 NW 16
Type of record:Monument
Name:Belgic occupation material and a possible cremation burial, Studd Hill

Summary

An Iron Age settlement site indicated by finds including pottery, a coin and a possible cremation found in 1955 on the cliff edge at the highest point of Studd Hill.


Grid Reference:TR 1498 6772
Map Sheet:TR16NW
Parish:HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • CREMATION (CREMATION, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SETTLEMENT (SETTLEMENT, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • COIN (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 50 BC)
  • POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
  • POT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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Belgic occupation material, including a small fragment of a pedestal urn, platters, and a small cup and vase, together with some calcined bones (? burial) was found in 1955, on the cliff edge at the junction of the top soil and clay on the highest point of Studd Hill, near the junction of Riley Avenue and Daytona Way. The material, at present with Mr. Jenkins, will be returned to Herne Bay Museum. The findspot was indicated by Mr. Hopkins as at TR 14986772. He found a defaced tin coin, dated to 100-50 B.C. by the BM, at the same spot in the same year. The coin remains in his collection. (1-9)


Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record, 16 (Index). SWX11836.

<1> Maidstone Museum Arch Gaz (Anon undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46406.

<2> Herne Bay Press Corr HE Gough June-Sept 1955 (OS Card Reference). SKE43758.

<3> Inf Mr Frank Jenkins 10 St Martins Close Canterbury (Hon Corr) (OS Card Reference). SKE44343.

<4> Inf Mr HE Gough (Curator) Herne Bay Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE44346.

<5> Councillor HN Hopkins 1 Coastguard Cottages Studd Hill (local historian) (OS Card Reference). SKE39310.

<6> F1 ASP 02.12.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41886.

<7> Field report for monument TR 16 NW 16 - December, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5543.

<9> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record, 16 (Index). SWX11836.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Index: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record. 16.
<1>OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch Gaz (Anon undated).
<2>OS Card Reference: Herne Bay Press Corr HE Gough June-Sept 1955.
<3>OS Card Reference: Inf Mr Frank Jenkins 10 St Martins Close Canterbury (Hon Corr).
<4>OS Card Reference: Inf Mr HE Gough (Curator) Herne Bay Mus.
<5>XYOS Card Reference: Councillor HN Hopkins 1 Coastguard Cottages Studd Hill (local historian). [Mapped feature: #44197 Settlement, ]
<6>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02.12.63.
<7>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 NW 16 - December, 1963.
<9>Index: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record. 16.