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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NE 133
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bronze Age barrows, near Pendell, Broadstairs

Summary

Bronze Age barrows, discovered at Pendell near Broadstairs, during extension work to the council refuse tip. Finds include a beaker, Neolithic and Bronze Age sherds. This is also the site of a early medieval (Jutish) cemetery.

Grid Reference:TR 3749 6929
Map Sheet:TR36NE
Parish:BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 4000 BC to 700 BC)
  • ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • BEAKER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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[TR 37496929] Cropmarks (ring ditch). (1) These cropmarks fall in ploughed fields on the summit and south side of a downland ridge. Nothing was visible. (2) (TR) 375693. BA barrows were discovered here during extension work to the council refuse tip. Finds include a beaker, Ne and BA sherds. This site had a superimposed Jutish cemetery (TR 36 NE 60). Part of the site containing a barrow and Jutish graves remains unexcavated to the north west of the old tip boundary. (3) Seen on RCHME AP as ring ditch containing 2 possible pit features. (Round barrow?) (4)


<1> AP (CUC YH 27) (OS Card Reference). SKE33504.

<2> F1 ASP 26.02.65 (OS Card Reference). SKE42296.

<3> Thanet Sites and Mons Record 1 1988 site 57 (OS Card Reference). SKE49875.

<4> Field report for monument TR 36 NE 133 - February, 1965 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6204.

<5> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, Thanet SMR, cropmark plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6443.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: AP (CUC YH 27).
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 26.02.65.
<3>XYOS Card Reference: Thanet Sites and Mons Record 1 1988 site 57. [Mapped feature: #62331 barrow, ]
<4>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 36 NE 133 - February, 1965.
<5>Miscellaneous Material: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Thanet SMR, cropmark plot..