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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 14 SE 84 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric Ditch, Lyminge |
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Summary
A section of north-south aligned straight ditch was found, cut by later burials, containing in its fill animal bone and prehistoric struck flint.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1641 4171 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR14SE |
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| Parish: | LYMINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DITCH (Prehistoric - 500000 BC? to 42 AD? (at some time))
Associated Finds
Full description
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A section of north-south aligned straight ditch was found, cut by later burials, containing in its fill animal bone and prehistoric struck flint. Pottery sherds were found in the plough soil in 2002 and 1953-55 excavations (TR 14 Se 17) A possible barrow may have been located to the north -east as well (TR 14 SE 85).(1-2)
<1> Warhurst, A., 1956, The Jutish Cemetery at Lyminge, Arch Cant 69 1955 6 (A Warhurst) (Article in serial). SKE12199.
<2> Dover Archaeological Group, 2002, Report on Evaluation Trenching at Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, 2002 (Unpublished document). SKE12198.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Warhurst, A.. 1956. The Jutish Cemetery at Lyminge. LXIX p1 -40. Arch Cant 69 1955 6 (A Warhurst). |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Dover Archaeological Group. 2002. Report on Evaluation Trenching at Lyminge Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, 2002. |
