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Monument details

Summary

Iron Age pottery found 1928/9. Excavation in 1948 recovered pottery and burnt daub indicating possible settlement.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• SETTLEMENT (SETTLEMENT, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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[TR 18756150] Iron Age pottery found A.D.1928 and 1929 [NAT] Iron Age remains found A.D.1928, 1929 and 1948 [NAT] Minor open settlement, early (A or B). (1-3) A probable EIA pit dwelling was partly excavated by Jenkins in 1948 in a gravel pit on the summit of Bab's Oak Hill, Sturry. Sherds of crude, handmade vessels of very friable black gritted ware, typical of the period, were found with fragments of burnt daub, and are in Canterbury Museum. (4) Mr. Jenkins confirmed that his excavation was in the pit at TR 18746150. This pit, long-disused, is now being filled in. No further finds are reported from the area, and no further information regarding the 1928-9 finds was gained during fieldwork. (5)

<1> OS 25" (OS Card Reference). SKE48250.

<2> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<3> OS IA Britain Map Index (OS Card Reference). SKE48416.

<4> Arch Cant 62 1949 146 (F Jenkins) (OS Card Reference). SKE35346.

<5> F1 ASP 05.12.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41934.

<6> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 10 - December, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5559.

<7> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape, p39 (Unpublished document). SKE7002.

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