Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

A subcircular cropmark feature was identified in aerial photographs taken by the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England. A site near this location was excavated in 1995 and amongst the finds recovered were worked and waste flints including a tanged and barbed arrowhead, sherds of decorated and plain beaker pottery and animal bones. The pottery has been tentatively identified as either late Neolithic or middle Bronze Age in date. It is uncertain if the excavations actually took place at the site identified in the aerial photographs. Pits containing early to mid Iron Age pottery and an early medieval burial have also been found in close proximity.

Monument Types

• DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age - 3000 BC? (at some time) to 1001 BC? (at some time))
• SETTLEMENT (Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age - 3000 BC? (at some time) to 1001 BC? (at some time))

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 701 BC?)
• BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 701 BC?)
• DEBITAGE (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC? to 701 BC?)

Full description

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Site identified during transcription of features recorded on air photographs. (1)

Evaluation trenching Laundry Rd. Minster, 1995. A single subcircular ditch with pit features. Finds from the main enclosure feature included worked and waste flints (including a tanged and barbed arrowhead), sherds of decorated and plain beaker pottery and animal bones. The pottery has been tentatively identified as either late neolithic or middle bronze age in date.

The location of the site does not tie-in with plotted RCHME photos which seen to be out by 30m to the north-west.

Also found close to the site were, to the north, a pit containing early to mid iron age pottery and, to the south, at least one early medieval burial. (2)

Crop-marks showing a ring ditch possibly associated with TR 36 NW 87 (SAM 262). (3)

<1> David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent (OS Card Reference). SKE39678.

<2> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1995, Archaeological Evaluation at Laundry Road, Minster, Isle of Thanet (Unpublished document). SKE11883.

<3> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1991, Proposed Improvements to The A253 Between Monkton & Ramsgate: The Archaeological Implications (Unpublished document). SKE11867.

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