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Monument details

Summary

A group of pits or ditches were uncovered during work to lay a gas pipeline near Monkton roundabout to the north of the village. Fragments of the upper stone of a rotary quern of Neidermending lava were found from the fill of these features. Later Iron Age (Belgic) and Romano-British pottery sherds were also found and the assemblage of Roman wares was dated to the period from cAD 65-85. This assembalge comprised a number of local wares and some imported materials.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Roman - 43 AD? to 409 AD)
• PIT (Roman - 65 AD? to 85 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC? to 85 AD?)
• QUERN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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TR 286655 located to the nearest fifty metres. Romano British remains. Thanet Archaeological Trust SMR Site no 145. (1)

[TR 28586550] Sited from plan. A group of pits or ditches were uncovered on either side of the roundabout at the A253 and A299 at Monkton, during the construction of the Monkton gas pipeline in 1982. From the upcast chalk rubble fill of these features were obtained fragments of the upper stone of a rotary quern in Neidermending lava, the grinding surface having a pecked finish. The spoil heap also yielded Belgic and RB sherds as follows: Canterbury sandy ware, Belgic grog-tempered wares, one of which is a two-handled flagon copying Hofhiem imports. As a group this material can be assigned a range, cAD 65-85. (2)

Possibly associated with TR 26 NE 61. (4)

TR 287655 (sic) TR 28586550 (sited from plan) See illustration card (OS Kent SMR Record now with the NMR in Swindon). Pits containing RB material (especially pottery) were cut by the Monkton-Ramsgate gas pipeline. (3)

<1> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49864.

<2> Perkins, D. R. J. & Hawkes, S. C., 1985, The Thanet Gas Pipeline Phases I & II (Monkton Parish) 1982, Arch Cant 101 1984 85 86 88 illus (DRJ Perkins & S Chadwick-Hawkes) (Article in serial). SKE11845.

<3> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1987, Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive, Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Arch 1988 Record No 145 (Collection). SKE11846.

<4> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1991, Proposed Improvements to The A253 Between Monkton & Ramsgate: The Archaeological Implications (Unpublished document). SKE11867.

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