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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 16 NW 1067
Type of record:	Maritime
Name:	Possible Pudding Pan rock wrecksite

Summary

Roman pottery has been found on a sand bar known as the Pan Sand which may derive from a Roman wreck nearby. In 1983 an amphora was found c. 500m to the north at Pan Sand bank

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (ceramic, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
SITE (Roman to Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 43 AD to 410 AD)

Associated Finds

VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
SHERD (Roman - 100 AD to 199 AD)

Full description

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Unstratified Roman ceramics on bar known as Pan Sand. Probable tidal movement deposits this material onto the Pudding-Pan Rock site where they are dredged by fishermen. In 1983 a Whitstable fisherman, B. M. Tyrrell, found a Roman amphora 500m to the north of the Pan Sand bank (1).

Additional references (2-8).

Second century Samian ware found here (9)

<1> Button, A., 1992, A unique amphora from the Pan Sand (Article in serial). SWX9386.

<2> Pike, G. and Cann, J., 1995, Pudding Pan Rock and a Roman Wreck (Article in monograph). SWX9294.

<3> Smith, R. A., 1907, The wreck on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent, p.268-291 (Article in serial). SWX7797.

<4> Smith, R. A., 1909, On the diving operations on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent, and on the Gallo-Roman red ware recen, 395-414 (Article in serial). SWX7798.

<5> Pownall, T., 1779, Memoive on the Romans Earthenware fished up from within the mouth of the River Thames, p.282-290 (Article in serial). SWX7306.

<6> Keate, G., Observations on the Roman Earthen Ware found in the Sea on the Kentish Coast (Article in serial). SWX9266.

<7> Pike, G. and Cann, J., 1995, Pudding Pan Rock and a Roman Wreck (Article in monograph). SWX9294.

<8> Whitstable and Herne Bay Museums, Catalogue of accessions (Index). SWX9398.

<9> Muckelroy K, 1978, Maritime Archaeology (Article in serial). SKE54773.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Article in serial: Button, A.. 1992. A unique amphora from the Pan Sand. p.68-72.
<2>	Article in monograph: Pike, G. and Cann, J.. 1995. Pudding Pan Rock and a Roman Wreck. 12-19.
<3>	Article in serial: Smith, R. A.. 1907. The wreck on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent. 21, pages 268-291. p.268-291.
<4>	Article in serial: Smith, R. A.. 1909. On the diving operations on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent, and on the Gallo-Roman red ware recen. 22, pages 395-413. 395-414.
<5>	Article in serial: Pownall, T.. 1779. Memoive on the Romans Earthenware fished up from within the mouth of the River Thames. 5, pages 282-290. p.282-290.
<6>	Article in serial: Keate, G.. Observations on the Roman Earthen Ware found in the Sea on the Kentish Coast. 6, p.125-129.
<7>	Article in monograph: Pike, G. and Cann, J.. 1995. Pudding Pan Rock and a Roman Wreck. 12-19.
<8>	Index: Whitstable and Herne Bay Museums. Catalogue of accessions.
<9>	Article in serial: Muckelroy K. 1978. Maritime Archaeology. Vol 143.