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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 10 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman pottery works around Higham |
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Summary
Roman pottery works around Higham
| Grid Reference: | TQ 70 73 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | HIGHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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| SHORNE, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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"The Roman potteries at Higham covered the bank for about three miles along the edge of the marsh. I have found a very great variety in the kinds of pottery here, mostly black however. I have seen over a hundred unbroken pots at one time, and such immense quantities of broken fragments that the new embankment of the railway there was in places made with them" (1) "....Higham ware was well made, blue-black in clour, but not so highly finished as that made at Upchurch"... (2) The foreshore of Higham parish has been dug away for mud by the A.P.C.M. The only evidence of Roman occupation now visible is at TQ 70717563 (qv. TQ 77 NW 20) COMPONENT; 1st-5th.c. settlement; 1st-2nd.c. Pottery kilns; 4th-5th. c. cemetery. [TQ 77 SE 4] Pottery works reused as cremation cemetery. [TQ 77 SW 4] Probably pottery kiln found. [TQ 67 SE 30] Pottery kiln found 1926. [TQ 67 SE 28] Pottery kilns found 1886-98. [TQ 67 SE 29] Occupation site found 1964. [TQ 77 NW 20]
<1> Arch. J., Vol 42, 1885, p.277 (F.C.J. Spurell) (OS Card Reference). SKE37158.
<2> Arch. Cant., Vol 23, 1898, pp. 22-3 (G. Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE37121.
<3> F1 CFW 17-NOV-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42611.
<5> Field report for monument TQ 77 SW 10 - November, 1951 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4291.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Arch. J., Vol 42, 1885, p.277 (F.C.J. Spurell). |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch. Cant., Vol 23, 1898, pp. 22-3 (G. Payne). [Mapped feature: #26130 pottery works, ] |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 17-NOV-64. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 77 SW 10 - November, 1951. |
Related records
| TQ 67 SE 30 | Parent of: Roman kiln found AD 1861 (Monument) |
| TQ 77 SW 4 | Parent of: Roman kiln site (Monument) |
| TQ 77 NW 20 | Parent of: Roman occupation site ? Higham Creek (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SE 28 | Parent of: Roman pottery kiln (site of) (Monument) |
| TQ 67 SE 29 | Parent of: Roman pottery kiln (site of) (Monument) |
