Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age settlement.

Monument Types

• SETTLEMENT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC? to 401 BC?)
• SHERD (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 1000 BC to 401 BC)

Full description

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In 1997/8 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out an evaluation and a watching brief on groundworks. Subsequent strip, map and sample excavation in the first half of 1998 found numerous features and a droveway crossing the site from north to south. The work was subsequently taken over by the Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust from late 1998 until early 1999. The final phase of work on the site was conducted by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in 1999.

It appears that the site was occupied by a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age settlement with at least one roundhouse identified. A midden was located nearby and numerous pits were also found. A large volume of pottery of this date was recovered from numerous features, along with perforated ceramic slabs. Other finds included a whale vertebra. No further information. (1-5)

<1> Kent County Council, 2008, Collated Summary Reports from the phases of archaeological fieldwork undertaken in connection with a: Residential development at Power Station Road, Isle of Sheppey in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE24349.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1998, Power Station Road, Halfway, Sheppey: Archaeological Evaluation & Watching Brief - Draft Interim Report (Unpublished document). SKE24350.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1998, Power Station Road, Halfway, Sheppey: General Interim Report on Fieldwork to 4th June 1998 (Unpublished document). SKE24351.

<4> Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust, 1998, Summary of Archaeological Investigations, By the Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust, For Wimpey Homes, Powerstation Road, Sheppey (Unpublished document). SKE24352.

<5> Philp, B. J., 2002, Archaeology in the Front Line: 50 Years of Kent Rescue 1952 - 2002 (Monograph). SKE11928.

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