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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NE 169
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age mounds, ring ditches and cremations, Monkton

Summary

A number of Bronze Age mounds, ring ditches and cremations were found during work on the A253 near Monkton. The mounds and ring ditches mainly dated to the middle to late Bronze Age. The four cremation burials found in satellite locations outside the ring ditches of the barrow group were all found in urns of Deverel-Rimbury type. On the basis of this identification the burials could also be dated to the middle Bronze Age.

Grid Reference:TR 2950 6566
Map Sheet:TR26NE
Parish:MONKTON, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • MOUND (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • CREMATION (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Full description

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Area 7 of A253 Dualling, centred approx. TR 2950 6566. Contained mounds and ring ditches dating mostly to Mid-LBA. 4 satellite cremations in pots of Deveril-Rimbury type were discovered outside of the ring ditches of the barrow group. (1).

Geophysical survey carried out in 1992(2).


<1> CAT Annual Report, 1994-5. (OS Card Reference). SKE38716.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, CAT Annual Report, 1994-5. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> Clark, A. J. & Bartlett, A. D. H., 1992, Thanet, Kent: Proposed Improvements to A253 Report on Geophysical Survey (Unpublished document). SWX6777.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: CAT Annual Report, 1994-5..
<1>Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. CAT Annual Report, 1994-5..
<2>Unpublished document: Clark, A. J. & Bartlett, A. D. H.. 1992. Thanet, Kent: Proposed Improvements to A253 Report on Geophysical Survey.