Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A sequence of Roman buildings from c.AD 50 until the late Roman period.

Monument Types

• FLOOR (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• INHUMATION (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• OVEN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• BUILDING (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)
• YARD (Roman - 50 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• BRACELET (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• INTAGLIO (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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A series of interventions including evaluations, watching briefs and a borehole survey, culminating in an open area excavation to the rear of the Beaney Institute were carried out by Canterbury Archaeological Trust between 2008 and 2010. The earliest deposits found consisted of an apparently first century AD levelling deposit of gravel. A timber building and courtyard dated to c.AD 50-70. It was later rebuilt with stone foundations and later still extended with a portico. Foundation deposits were made at this time, with samian pottery and a neonate placed in post-hole like features. A larger masonry building lay to the east, mostly beyond the limits of excavation. These buildings were in turn replaced by timber structures with clay floors, apparently various workshops and kitchens. One of the workshops contained scraps of melted bronze and metal working waste, along with an intaglio. In the late 2nd or early 3rd century a large timber-framed building was constructed. This had burnt down, preserving the wooden floor of the structure. A gold bracelet was found beneath this floor. Several buildings were built on the site in the later Roman period. (1)

<1> Weekes, J., 2012, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 293-4 (Article in serial). SKE25119.

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