Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Small Roman settlement, Little New House Farm, Headcorn

Monument Types

• DITCH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC)? (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• CREMATION (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• GULLY (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD?)
• SETTLEMENT? (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• VESSEL (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• CERAMIC (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• CREMATION (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• NAIL (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• WEIGHT (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• BROOCH (Roman - 75 AD to 100 AD)
• STRAP FITTING (Roman - 100 AD to 200 AD)

Full description

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Trial trenching by Smarden Local History Society found evidence of a Roman settlement enclosed by a ditch. A complete vessel in the base of the ditch dates it to the [Late?] Iron Age. A cremation was found, in addition to domestic debris, and a 2nd century military belt plate. A probable Iron Age roundhouse drip gully was found below the Roman site. The site was excavated due to a surface spread of iron slag. No smelting activity was recorded in the excavations, though a smelting area in the vicinity of the settlement seems likely. (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Aldridge, 2009, Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group (Unpublished document).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.

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