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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 16 SE 23 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Homersham's West Pit? |
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Summary
Some potsherds, described as Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, said to have come "from a pit between Sturry School and Whatmer Hall", an area that includes a number of disused gravel pits.
| Grid Reference: | TR 178 608 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16SE |
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| Parish: | STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (POTTERY, Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1200 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (POTTERY, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Middle Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age - 1200 BC to 400 BC)
Full description
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On exhibition in Herne Bay Public Library are a few LBA/EIA potsherds labelled "from a pit between Sturry School and Whatmer Hall" but with no information or exact provenance or date of find. The area indicated includes the Homersham and Ashenden gravel pits, all long since disused and now levelled and built over. (1-2-3)
<1> F1 CFW 29.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42807.
<2> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 23 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5571.
<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape, p36 (Unpublished document). SKE7002.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 29.11.63. [Mapped feature: #44235 find, ] |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 SE 23 - November, 1963. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1994. A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape. p36. |
