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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 85 NW 240 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Roman villa at Snagbrook Farm, Hollingbourne |
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Summary
A parch mark, resistivity survey and a trial trench revealed the foundations of a Roman villa.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8389 5523 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ85NW |
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| Parish: | HOLLINGBOURNE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- VILLA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Full description
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A Roman villa 20mx35m was found. It had ragstone walls 70cm wide (no mortar) which were the foundation walls only (no floors were found). It was a typical corridor design with several internal walls. A piece of Upchurch ware sherd rim suggested a 2nd-3rd Century date. Extending SE from the building there was a trace of a rectangular enclosure which was either a garden or another older building (not trial trenched). (1)
Plans. (2)
<1> Lenham Archaeological Society, 2008, Discovering Ancient Lenham: Volume 1 Edition 2: Magnetometer Surveys of Stumbles Field and Court Meadow: A Synopsis of the report by Bartlett-Clark Consultancy (Serial). SKE13584.
<2> Lenham Archaeological Society, 2008, Various finds from Lenham - Lenham Archaeology Society (Unpublished document). SKE16597.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Serial: Lenham Archaeological Society. 2008. Discovering Ancient Lenham: Volume 1 Edition 2: Magnetometer Surveys of Stumbles Field and Court Meadow: A Synopsis of the report by Bartlett-Clark Consultancy. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Lenham Archaeological Society. 2008. Various finds from Lenham - Lenham Archaeology Society. |
