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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 SW 23
Type of record:Monument
Name:Romano-British and prehistoric findspot

Summary

Romano-British brick, 'U' pottery and PR flint implements

Grid Reference:TQ 5247 6472
Map Sheet:TQ56SW
Parish:EYNSFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT? (Early Mesolithic to Roman - 10000 BC? to 409 AD?)

Associated Finds

  • FLAKE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • BRICK (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • SHERD (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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'TQ 5247 6472) Long. 0 11' 25", Lat. 51 21' 38". Eleven fragments of pottery, one piece of Roman brick and two flint flakes were found by Greenfield and others on a rampart or lynchet. (1) (cf. TQ 56 SW 15) The siting falls upon a modern lynchet. The ground is under corn stubble and a search revealed nothing other than a general scatter of medieval. tile. The potsherds, which were unclassified have not been preserved and no further details were kept concerning this site (a). (1-4)


<1> E. Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Museum "Darent Valley, 942.23, General" (OS Card Reference). SKE41542.

<2> Oral: Lt. Col. G. Meates, Hon. Corr. (OS Card Reference). SKE48045.

<3> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 23 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2986.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: E. Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Museum "Darent Valley, 942.23, General".
<2>OS Card Reference: Oral: Lt. Col. G. Meates, Hon. Corr..
<3>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-OCT-64.
<4>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 23 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #54570 finds, ]