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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 176 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Early Medieval settlement, folkestone |
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Summary
Em settlement, folkestone.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2080 3790 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SETTLEMENT (SETTLEMENT, Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 410 AD to 1065 AD)
Full description
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EM settlement discovered by CAT at site of Channel Tunnel terminal. No further details as yet. (1) Site dating to c.AD 725, on a high plateau at Cherry Garden Hill. 2 groups of intercutting rubbish pits containing pottery, animal bones and sea-shells, reveal the presence of an isolated habitation site. No trace of a house found, but position of pits may reflect the position of a building which was removed by ploughing. (2)
RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.
RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKe6910.
<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Folkestone + Dover water services Ltd, Bluehouse to Cherry Garden trunk main, Arch + ecology review, (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
<2> CAT Annual Report, 1987-8, p.59. (OS Card Reference). SKE38710.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main. |
| <1> | Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Folkestone + Dover water services Ltd, Bluehouse to Cherry Garden trunk main, Arch + ecology review,. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: CAT Annual Report, 1987-8, p.59.. |
