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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 NE 32 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Romano British encampment, salt and pottery industries, Eastborough Farm, Cooling |
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Summary
Romano-British encampment, salt and pottery industries excavated by the Kent Archaeological Society between c.1969 and 1974. Finds were indicative of occupation from the Antonine period onwards.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7705 7650 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NE |
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| Parish: | COOLING, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
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[TQ 7705 7650] Roman encampment, salt and pottery industries. (1) Additional bibliography. (2-6)
This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cooling Parish. The report states: "Human occupation in Cooling dates back to at least the Romano-British period…On the evocatively named Whalebone Marsh to north-east of the village, excavations were carried out in the 1930s, 1960s and 1970s revealing several Roman pottery kilns and a salt-production site in use from the 1st to 3rd centuries" (7)
<1> Kent Arch Res Unit Record Card M118 (OS Card Reference). SKE45733.
<2> Arch Cant 85 1970 187-158 (PP Day) (OS Card Reference). SKE35808.
<3> Arch Cant 86 1971 242-43 (PP Day) (OS Card Reference). SKE35869.
<4> Arch Cant 87 1972 240 (PP Day) (OS Card Reference). SKE35915.
<5> Arch Cant 89 1974 210 (DB Kelly) (OS Card Reference). SKE35977.
<6> Kent Arch Rev 17 1969 16-17 (A Miles and M Syddell) (OS Card Reference). SKE45749.
<7> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31592.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Kent Arch Res Unit Record Card M118. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 85 1970 187-158 (PP Day). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 86 1971 242-43 (PP Day). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 87 1972 240 (PP Day). |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 89 1974 210 (DB Kelly). |
| <6> | OS Card Reference: Kent Arch Rev 17 1969 16-17 (A Miles and M Syddell). |
| <7>XY | Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cooling Parish. Research Report 51-2014.. [Mapped feature: #25048 Roman site, ] |
