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Monument details

Summary

Romano-British burials glass bottle, pottery and Palaeolithic flints found in a sand pit at Allington

Monument Types

• BURIAL (BURIAL, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
• UNASSIGNED (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
• BOTTLE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• BROOCH (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 74725844] Roman Glass Bottle and Pottery found AD1905 [NAT] (1) Romano-British small square glass bottle and pottery found 1905, now in Maidstone Museum. Also palaeoliths. (2) Boxley: From the sand-pit near Cobtree Hall opposite Allington: A red-glaze bowl of poor soft ware found in 1905; a perfect square glass bottle found in 1907, another being destroyed; bronze fibulae and several small urns have been found and kept by the workmen. (3) Quotes extract from Auty 3 and ends list of RB antiquities from Boxley area with "A small square glass bottle and pottery found in Cobtree Sand Pit in 1905 are in the Maidstone Museum" as if these latter finds were separate from those given by Authy. 3. (4) Pottery found 1905. glass bottles (2) found 1907. One destroyed. Several small urns kept by workmen. Also flint implements of Late Chellean or early St. Acheulian date, from the middle terrace gravels of the Medway. These implements in Maidstone Museum. (5) In store in Maidstone Museum "from Aylesford" is a selection of handaxes, ovates, scrapers and flakes, some of which probably derive from this site, a long disused sand pit, largely destroyed by the construction of the Maidstone by-pass. Also "from Allington" is a 2nd c. A.D. square glass bottle on display and some RB pottery in store. (No accession numbers). (6)

This may be the site examined during the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (9)

<1> OS 6" 1938-48 (OS Card Reference). SKE48355.

<2> Rec 6"(OGS Crawford udtd) quoting Auth 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE49080.

<3> Infm J H Elgar Maidstone Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE44444.

<4> Rochester Nat 6 1924 51 (OS Card Reference). SKE49285.

<5> VCH Kent 3 1932 148 (OS Card Reference). SKE51034.

<6> Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress (OS Card Reference). SKE46425.

<7> F1 ASP 27.02.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42313.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 19 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3872.

<9> Wenban-Smith F. F., Bates M.R and Marshall G., 2007, Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project Final Report: The Palaeolithic Resource in the Medway Gravels (Kent) (Unpublished document). SKE29351.

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