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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 84 SE 255 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Late Iron Age bloomery site, Smarden |
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Summary
2 Late Iron Age bloomeries at Cousins Farm, Smarden
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8796 4458 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ84SE |
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| Parish: | SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BLOOMERY (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD) + Sci.Date
Associated Finds
- SLAG (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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Excavation by Smarden Local History Society at Cousins Farm in 2008 found 2 smelting hearths located at either end of a small gully which was filled with iron-working waste. Bloomery 1 had an 0.60m x 0.40m oval base filled with 18cm of slag and charcoal. Bloomery 2 was smaller, only 0.40m in diameter. It had little slag inside. Radiocarbon dating from bloomery 2 gave a range of 180-40BC at 95% probability. (1)
<1> Neil Aldridge, 2009, Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group (Unpublished document). SKE16635.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Neil Aldridge. 2009. Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group. |
