Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Late Bronze Age burials. The sources suggest they may be part of a late Bronze Age settlement, now largely built over. The burials consisted of two inhumations, one with a bronze bracelet and both with bronze armlets. A Deverel-Rimbury urn (non cinerary) was also found in a pit nearby, containing three Picardy-type bronze pins.

Monument Types

• BURIAL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC (at some time) to 701 BC (at some time))
• SETTLEMENT? (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC (at some time) to 701 BC (at some time))

Associated Finds

• ARMLET (Middle Bronze Age - 1300 BC to 1150 BC)
• ARMLET (Middle Bronze Age - 1300 BC to 1150 BC)
• ARMLET (Middle Bronze Age - 1300 BC to 1150 BC)
• BRACELET (Middle Bronze Age - 1300 BC to 1150 BC)
• ARMLET (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
• BRACELET (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
• PIN (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)
• URN (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC? to 701 BC?)

Full description

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An inhumation burial with a ribbed bracelet and two bronze armlets, was found in a chalk-cut grave at Hollicondane, between Ramsgate and Dumpton, in 1891, (1) and another skeleton with four bronze armlets was reported from the same place in January 1896. (2) Nearby, in 1929, a Deverel-Rimbury type urn (not cinerary) with three Picardy bronze pins was found when foundations were being dug for the Biological Laboratory at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate. (3) All the 1891 and 1929 finds are Late Bronze Age and the area, now largely built over, may have been a L.B.A. settlement. (1-3)
Find of urn and pins sited to TR 3794,6607 but no information was gained during fieldwork as to the exact site of the 1891 burial. The suggestion that these discoveries denote a settlement site is borne out by the general topographical position, i.e. a small spur facing south. (4)
A solid armlet with engraved decoration from an inhumation in Ramsgate is in the British Museum Acc. No. 1916, 10-14, 2. (5)
At Ramsgate, Kent, an inhumation burial in a carefully dug grave in chalk was accompanied by a bronze ribbed wristlet and two penannular brooches decorated with a zoned pattern of traced ellipses. (6) The information can be gleaned from authority (3). (7)
Additional bibliography [8]. Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. Desk Based Assessment [9].

<1> Proc Prehist Soc 15, 1949, 117-21 (illust) (CM Piggott) (OS Card Reference). SKE48719.

<2> Archaeol Cant. 22, 1897, LI, (G Payne and WH Hills) (OS Card Reference). SKE37260.

<3> Proc Prehist Soc 8, 1942, 26-47 (illust) (CFC Hawkes) (OS Card Reference). SKE48725.

<4> F1 AC 15-APR-53 (OS Card Reference). SKE41804.

<5> Proc Prehist Soc 25, 1959, 208 (Brown and Blin Stoyle) (OS Card Reference). SKE48723.

<6> S.E. England 1970, 120-2, illust (RF Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE49386.

<7> Isle of Thanet Archaeol Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988, Record No 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE44769.

<8> Field report for monument TR 36 NE 33 - April, 1953 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6171.

<9> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1995, Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. A Desk Based Study (Unpublished document). SWX7097.

Sources and further reading