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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 26 NW 12 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | possible Romano-British bldg foundations |
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Summary
Romano-British incribed slab (? not in situ) - Romano-British coins - poss Romano-British bldg foundations
| Grid Reference: | TR 2063 6572 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26NW |
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| Parish: | HOATH, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Ford Manor House (rems of) L 15th c - Barn 16th c - Possible remains of moat. |
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Full description
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On exhibition in Herne Bay Museum is a fragment of a 2nd century A.D. inscribed slab, part of a tombstone or memorial tablet, found between 1880 and 1890 in the debris of the Archbishops Palace at Ford (a) [TR 26 NW 8, TR 20626573 `A']. Mr. H.E. Gough suggests that it may have come with building material for the palace either from Reculver or Canterbury. Excavations for a modern oasthouse at TR 20646571 `B' on the site of the palace, uncovered a number of Roman coins which were subsequently dispersed among school children and lost. No details are known about them (c). At the same time, foundations of alleged Roman buildings were found (b), but as much Roman building material is used in the construction of the palace, as is evident from the existing fragments of walling, it is possible that palace foundations were misidentified. (1)
<1> Display Card Herne Bay Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE39734.
<2> JRS 24 1934 219 (OS Card Reference). SKE45070.
<3> Inf Mr HE Gough Curator Herne Bay Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE44347.
<4> F1 ASP 04.12.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41916.
<5> Field report for monument TR 26 NW 12 - December, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5847.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Display Card Herne Bay Mus. [Mapped feature: #50429 Find, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: JRS 24 1934 219. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Inf Mr HE Gough Curator Herne Bay Mus. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 04.12.63. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 26 NW 12 - December, 1963. |
