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Monument details

Summary

Two graves, broadly Late Iron Age or Early Roman in date, were discovered at the north end of Zone 4 during excavations associated with the construction of the East Kent Access route in Thanet. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• GRAVE (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 200 BC to 42 AD)
• INHUMATION (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 200 BC to 1 BC) + Sci.Date

Associated Finds

• NAIL (Middle Iron Age to Roman - 200 BC to 43 AD)

Full description

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Two graves, broadly Late Iron Age or Early Roman in date, were present at the north end of Zone 4. One was dug into the top of a Late Iron Age ditch and contained the remains of two individuals, a young and an old woman. Bone from one of these gave a radiocarbon date of 200-1 cal BC placing it in the middle-late Iron Age. The second grave cut into the top of a Middle-Late Iron Age pit in the north east corner of Zone 4 and contained a single inhumation burial, probable coffin nails were recovered from the grave. (information summarised from source) (1)

<1> Andrews et al, 2015, Digging The Gateway: Archaeological Landscapes of South Thanet. The Archaeology of East Kent Access (Phase III) Vol 1: The sites (Monograph). SKE55517.

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