Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A series of eight small scale excavations running in a line down the slope of the east side of the Westbrook valley, opposite the Parish Church, yielded flint implements of varying age, pot boilers and waste flakes from every pit.

Monument Types

• ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• POT BOILER (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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A series of eight small pits were dug at ten metre intervals on an east-west line down the eastern side of the middle Westbrook valley, opposite the Parish Church. The excavation was part of a research project being carried out in the Ospringe area by the Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group into prehistoric and early medieval human activity. The uppermost pit reached the underlying chalk in fifteen centimetres; the lower down pits (on the site of Brook Cottages demolished in the 1950s) reached a maximum depth of 1.4 metres without reaching the chalk. All pits yielded flint implements, waste flakes and pot boilers. The dateable flint implements ranged in age from Mesolithic to Bronze Age. (1)

<1> Faversham Society Archaeological Research Group, 2012, Understanding Ospringe Project 2008-9 and 2011 (Unpublished document). SKE17255.

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