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Monument details

Summary

Roman burials consisting of 5 skeletons were found at Halling in 1926 in a chalk pit. They were accompanied by pottery vessels.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

• VESSEL (Roman to Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 43 AD to 410 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 68876362 ] Roman Burials found A.D.1926 [NAT] (1) A Roman burial at Halling. Some 30 yards S.W. of the south- westernmost corner of Clement's Farm buildings, at a depth of 4' the remains of five skeletons, including one child, and pottery were found in May, 1926. A bowl of fumed grey-black ware in imitation of a samian form, a flask of hard buff-brown clay, twice banded on the shoulder with a cream slip, and two sherds of coarse gritty red clay, one of which was all that was saved of a pot stated by the workmen of the British Portland Cement Co to be "about three feet across" and broken on removal. The bones and pottery were identified by Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S. [See AO/59/82/6] (2-3) The site is a disused chalk-pit. No further information. (4)

Additional Info(6)

<1> OS 25" 1936 (OS Card Reference). SKE48262.

<2> Arch Cant vol 38 1926 184-6 (R D'elboux) (Illust) (OS Card Reference). SKE36397.

<3> VCH Kent 3 1932 156 (MV Taylor RF Jessup CFC Hawkes) (OS Card Reference). SKE51062.

<4> F1 CFW 15.10.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42582.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 66 SE 16 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3564.

<6> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Specification for Archaeological & Historical Landscape Baseline Studies: Holborough (Unpublished document). SKE7127.

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