Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Two pits were recorded in a chalk pit face. Hacklinge Holes chalk pit, Worth

Monument Types

• PIT (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 800 BC? to 300 BC?)

Associated Finds

• BEAD (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 850 BC? to 650 BC?)
• BRIQUETAGE (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 850 BC? to 650 BC?)
• LOOMWEIGHT (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 850 BC? to 650 BC?)
• SHERD (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 850 BC? to 650 BC?)

Full description

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TR 3376 5504. Iron Age site. Two pits located in the face of an old chalk quarry at Hacklinge Holes, Worth, by Mr R Tyman of Ramsgate, were excavated by Dover Archaeological Group in June 1983. One pit produced a large amount of Early Iron Age pottery 'tentatively dated to 850-650 BC' a loom-weight, an amber bead and several large briquetage fragments. The other pit produced only a few sherds of Iron Age pottery. (1)

The pits were subsequently described as being of Bronze age date, dating to about 1000 BC. (2)

<1> Arch Cant 99 1983 290 (K Parfitt) (OS Card Reference). SKE36354.

<2> Dover Archaeological Group, 1990, Brief Report on the Excavations by Dover Archaeological Group in the Area of the Roman Temple at Worth, in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE11891.

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