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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 16 SE 24
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Belgic Urn in Gravel pit, N-W of Whatmer Hall

Summary

An Iron Age pedestal urn containing cremated bones was found in 1925 near Whatmer Hall. A small Belgic urn was found in the same area in 1930.

Grid Reference:	TR 1816 6080
Map Sheet:	TR16SE
Parish:	STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

CREMATION (BURIAL, Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

URN (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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On exhibition in Herne Bay Public Library are a pedestal urn with burnt bones found in 1925 at Whatmer Hall, and a small Belgic burial urn of a reddish ware found in August, 1930, at the same place. No information was gained on the circumstances of finding but they possibly came from a long disused gravel pit situated about 80.0m to the west of Whatmer Hall at TR 18166080. (1,4)

<1> Display Card Herne Bay Public Library (OS Card Reference). SKE39736.

<2> F1 CFW 29.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42807.

<3> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 24 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5572.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape (Unpublished document). SKE7002.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	OS Card Reference: Display Card Herne Bay Public Library. [Mapped feature: #44236 find, ]
<2>	OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 29.11.63.
<3>	Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 SE 24 - November, 1963.
<4>	Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1994. A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape.