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Monument details

Summary

Site of probable small, winged Romano-British villa. The site was identified from aerial photographs and a limited rescue excavation took place in 1980 or 1981. A pit sectioned contained 1st - 2nd century AD pottery.

Monument Types

• FARM (Roman - 43 AD? (at some time) to 409 AD? (at some time))
• PIT (Roman - 43 AD? (at some time) to 199 AD? (at some time))
• VILLA? (pits and ditches, and finds, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD? to 199 AD?)

Full description

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(TR 287683 accurate to within 50m only) Cropmarks partially excavated in 1981. Site no. 86. (1) TR 287683 Brooksend. Ditches and pits datable to the Roman period were excavated in 1981 by D.R.J. Perkins on behalf of the Thanet Archaeology Unit. An interim report is with the Unit. (2) TR 28696825 Villa/RO/PM/Cropmark. Probable winged villa; rectilinear field boundaries are probably recent (3,4). TR 287683. Cropmarks show the remains of a Romano-British building. A minor rescue excavation in 1980 found boundary ditches and pits (see illustration card) (5). (TR 28706830 sited from Isle of Thanet Arch. Unit S.M.A. Map Diagram). Cropmark of probable Roman building. Cropmark and scatter investigated in 1980 and tentatively indentified as the remains of a small Romano-British building framed by ditches. A sectioned pit contained 1st-2nd century sherds. This site is not endangered by the agricultural process, since downhill drift has covered it in an overburden of more than 0.6m. The site is about 3m above sea level (6). Site photographs (7-9).

<1> Thanet The Arch Heritage c.1982 5 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49888.

<2> Cat of Excavs in Thanet pg1 (RCHME NMR Arch Recs Sect) (OS Card Reference). SKE38719.

<3> APs (CUC ANX 11-15; 16.05.66) (OS Card Reference). SKE34204.

<4> APs (CUC BFY 5-6; 07.07.71) (OS Card Reference). SKE34205.

<5> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1987, Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive, Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec No 68 plans (Collection). SKE11846.

<6> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec no 300/11 (OS Card Reference). SKE44650.

<7> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9662.

<8> 1948, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9720.

<9> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10063.

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