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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 87 SE 3 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Pottery kilns (site of ?) Roman |
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Summary
Site of probable Roman Pottery kilns, now destroyed by tidal erosion.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8549 7254 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ87SE |
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| Parish: | UPCHURCH, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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[Name at TQ 85507255] Roman Potteries [R] (site of) [NAT] (1). Roman pottery kilns (2). This name applies "to a large extent of Saltings reaching from Lower Halstow on the south to the Medway on the north, over the whole of which these potteries formerly extended and from which the Roman pottery now generally known as Upchurch Ware came." (See TQ 86 NW 31 for general card (3). There is no evidence of pottery kilns in the area of the published name, but see TQ 87 SE 28 and 21 (4). North of Sharpness Saltings/Burntwick Island, general area centred approx TQ 85507255; Site of Roman pottery kilns, observed in the early - mid 20th century, but probably now destroyed by tidal erosion. No details survive (5). Additional reference (6).
<1> OS 6" 1909 (OS Card Reference). SKE48324.
<2> Pte 6" (LRA Grove, undtd) (OS Card Reference). SKE48877.
<3> Rev ONB 10 (Capt BAT Shelly RE for CRE Chatham SD 17-SEP-1906) (OS Card Reference). SKE49181.
<4> F1 AC 20-AUG-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41818.
<5> Pottery Kilns of Ro Brit RCHME Supp Ser 5 1984 421 (VG Swan) (OS Card Reference). SKE48562.
<6> Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 3 - August, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4650.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1909. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Pte 6" (LRA Grove, undtd). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Rev ONB 10 (Capt BAT Shelly RE for CRE Chatham SD 17-SEP-1906). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: F1 AC 20-AUG-63. |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Pottery Kilns of Ro Brit RCHME Supp Ser 5 1984 421 (VG Swan). |
| <6>XY | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 87 SE 3 - August, 1963. [Mapped feature: #31825 kilns, ] |
