Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

During excavation in advance of new housing a series of late bronze age enclosures were found. The southern enclosure comprised two sections of ditch that seemed to comprise the north-west corner of the enclosure, including an entrance. Like the northern and central enclosures the southern enclosure dated to the late bronze age. A substantial quantity of animal bone, a human ulna and pottery was found.

Monument Types

• ENCLOSURE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 800 BC)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 800 BC)
• HUMAN REMAINS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 800 BC)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 800 BC)

Full description

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During excavation in advance of new housing in 2004/5 a series of late bronze age enclosures was found. The southern enclosure comprised two sections of ditch that seemed to comprise the north-west corner of the enclosure, including an entrance. Like the northern and central enclosures the southern enclosure dated to the late bronze age. A substantial quantity of animal bone, a human ulna and pottery was found.(3)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE13692.

<2> Jacqueline I. McKinley, Jörn Schuster and Andrew Millard, 2013, Dead-sea connections: A Bronze Age and Iron Age ritual site on the Isle of Thanet (Bibliographic reference). SKE24068.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2014, Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: a mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period (Bibliographic reference). SKE30562.

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