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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NW 306
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Romano-British cremations

Summary

Romano-British cremations


Grid Reference:TR 1417 5824
Map Sheet:TR15NW
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

Associated Finds

  • VESSEL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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(TR 14175824). The smashed remains of at least 7 Roman vessels and a delicate glass phial were recovered from pits dug for a light well and soakaway at 5 New Street, St Dunstan's in 1985. Three Roman cremation burials of a 2nd to 3rd cent. date, at a depth of 1.7m were destroyed. (1)


<1> Arch Cant 102 1985 247-8 (M Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE34614.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYOS Card Reference: Arch Cant 102 1985 247-8 (M Taylor). [Mapped feature: #43833 Cremation, ]

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