Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Two small shallow pits, 56 and 242, 0.70m in diameter and less than 0.10m deep, have been ascribed to the middle Bronze Age period.

Monument Types

• PIT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds

• OYSTER SHELL (Undated)
• LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1001 BC)
• ANIMAL REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
• CEREAL GRAIN (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
• NON MARINE MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
• PLANT MACRO REMAINS (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Full description

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Two small shallow pits, 56 and 242, 0.70m in diameter and less than 0.10m deep, have been ascribed to the middle bronze age period. Each contained the truncated remains of a vessel assigned to the Deverel-Rimbury tradition of the Middle Bronze Age. Both vessels had been placed upright, and only the bases survived. No bones found- therefore probably not burials.(1)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2009, A Late Bronze Age, Anglo-Saxon, And Medieval Settlement Site At Manston Road, Ramsgate in "Kentish Sites And Sites Of Kent A Miscellany of Of Four Archaeological Excavations." (Article in monograph). SKE16055.

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