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Monument details

Summary

Late Iron Age / Roman ditches and a trackway running N-S which may be part of the Rochester-Hastngs road.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
• TRACKWAY (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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Excavations undertaken around the White Horse Stone site in the Medway Valley between Oct 1998-Mar 1999 by Oxford Archaeology. The site consisted of three areas along the CTRL line; from west to east: the ‘White Horse Stone site’, the ‘Pilgrim’s Way site’, and the ‘West of Boarley Farm site’.

The settlement appears to have been abandoned by the late Iron Age, though ditches containing Roman pottery respect its perimeters. The fields were thus probably still farmed. A track running N-S across the White Horse and Pilgrim's Way sites is presumed to form part of the Roman Rochester-Hastings road. (1)

Additional bibliography. (2-3)

<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The Prehistoric Landscape at White Horse Stone, Aylesford, Kent: CTRL Integrated Site Report Series (Unpublished document). SKE16368.

<2> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16488.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Radiocarbon dates from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16490.

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