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Monument details

Summary

Site of a ring ditch but no trace of a primary burial, mound or bank remains. Some animal bones, Prehistoric pottery and Roman pottery found in the ditch.

Monument Types

• ROUND BARROW (ROUND BARROW, Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2350 BC to 409 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 69616255] Prehistoric ring-ditch. A circular ditch, outside diameter about 100ft. No sign of post-holes or other disturbance of the natural rock inside or outside the circle. Although no trace of primary burial was found at the centre of the circle, nor any trace of a mound or bank remaining, evidence suggested that a barrow had existed from the relationship of the Saxon graves of the adjoining cemetery [TQ 66 SE 14]. Fragmentary animal bones from the S.W. side of the ditch (layer 3) included some which were suggestive of human bones, and may indicate a secondary burial. Sections yielded: In layer 5, which lay on the primary silting, a piece of rusticated pottery with finger pinching. Layer 4 contained ash, fragments of charcoal and sherd similar to but larger than that found in 5. Organic matter comes from this layer only. Layer 3, a piece of rim with small perforation. Up to this level the sherds were consistently of a Secondary Neolithic culture. Also in layer 3, a small fragment of native B.A. ware and a coarse piece of L.B.A. - E.I.A. ware. Layer 2, 9ins below the topsoil yeilded sherds from L.B.A. to Roman. [See photograph of section plan - AO/59/161/2] [Sited from plan] (1) Site quarried away. (2) The working 25in plan of the A.P.C.M., Snodland, shows the site of this ring ditch or barrow at TQ 69616257. (3) The excavations were carried out from July to September 1952 and June and July 1953. (4)

Additional Info (7).

Photographs (9-10)

<1> Arch Cant 70 1956 87-90 illust plan (V I Evison) (OS Card Reference). SKE35481.

<2> F1 CFW 03.07.59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42397.

<3> F2 FGA 13.10.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43321.

<4> Arch Cant 70 1956 84-141 illust plan (VI Evison) (OS Card Reference). SKE35479.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 66 SE 15 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3562.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 66 SE 15 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3563.

<7> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Specification for Archaeological & Historical Landscape Baseline Studies: Holborough (Unpublished document). SKE7127.

<8> HOLBOROUGH - UNSPECIFIED VIEW OF SITE Types: RING DITCH (Photograph). SKE1379.

<9> HOLBOROUGH - UNSPECIFIED VIEW OF SITE Types: RING DITCH (Photograph). SKE1379.

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