Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A site at Hampton, Herne Bay has produced a range of material including flints, pottery and animal remains. The pottery included sherds described at the time as Early Iron Age, apparently associated with hearths.

Monument Types

• HEARTH (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 300 BC)
• SETTLEMENT (SETTLEMENT, Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 300 BC)

Associated Finds

• PICK (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Iron Age - 500000 BC to 300 BC)
• ANIMAL REMAINS (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 300 BC)
• LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 300 BC)
• SHERD (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC to 300 BC)

Full description

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An E.I.A. site at Hampton, Herne Bay, consisted of hearths associated with fragments of coarse, gritty, well-baked pottery, flakes, cores, scrapers, pigmy flints, calcined flints and hammer stones. A selection of flints and sherds together with animal teeth and oyster shells, part of the Armstrong Bowes Collection, is on exhibition in Herne Bay Museum. No further information as to the exact provenance and date of finds could be obtained. Three "Thames picks" from Hampton are also displayed and may have come from this site. (1-5)

<1> PPSEA 5 1925 73 (JPT Burchell) (OS Card Reference). SKE48630.

<2> PPSEA 4 1923-4 208-10 (JPT Burchell) (OS Card Reference). SKE48628.

<3> Display Cards Herne Bay Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE39743.

<4> F1 ASP 28.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42328.

<5> Field report for monument TR 16 NE 6 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5514.

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