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Monument details

Summary

Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a group of features that probably belonged to the same complex which is likely to have originated in the 1st century and continued in use into the mid-Roman period and all of which are likley associated with a timber structure. One of these features included a corn dryer which was represented by a pair of shallow, sub-rectangular pits separated by the T-shaped footings of flint and chalk. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• CORN DRYING OVEN (Roman - 50 AD? to 150 AD?)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)

Full description

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Excavation in 2000-2002 revealed a group of features that probably belonged to the same complex which is likely to have originated in the 1st century and continued in use into the mid-Roman period and all of which are likley associated with a timber structure. One of these features included a corn dryer which was represented by a pair of shallow, sub-rectangular pits separated by the T-shaped footings of flint and chalk, one course high, which formed the base for the superstructure. There were slight traces of scorching on the sides of the pits and the fills produced moderate assemblages of charred grain from free threshing wheat. (1)

<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2010, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document). SKE31245.

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