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Monument details

Summary

A strip field system, likely to be of medieval date. Medieval features interpreted as boundary ditches. Recut Anglo-Saxon ditches and a large pit found during excavation in 2000. Ephemeral evidence of agriculatural use in the medieval period has been found across most of the site.

Monument Types

• BOUNDARY DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• FIELD BOUNDARY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• STRIP FIELD? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

• VESSEL (Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon to Medieval - 1000 AD to 1100 AD)
• PLOUGH? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• QUERN (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
• ROOF TILE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Features interpreted as boundary ditches, excavated by Wessex Archaeology in 2000. Recut Anglo-Saxon ditches and a large pit found. (2)

In 2005 Wessex Archaeology carried out an evaluation on Phase 2, Stage II of the Kingsborough Manor development. A strip field system, likely to be of medieval date, was found. A pot placed in a pit also dates to this period. (1)

Further medieval boundary features were uncovered by a 'Strip, Map and Record' in 2007 and an excavation in 2008, both by Wessex Archaeology (3). The former 'represent the division and enclosure of the landscape into small land parcels' and the latter 'may have been associated, and possibly used for the control and sorting of animals'.

Archaeology South-East, 2000, Archaeological investigations at Kingsborough Farm, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent: Post-Excavation Assessment and Draft Proposals for Future Work (Unpublished document). SKE12602.

Wessex Archaeology, 2000, Kingsborough Farm Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Phase 1 Stage 2 Archaeological Excavation: Summary Report (Unpublished document). SKE12298.

Oxford Archaeology, 2004, Kingsborough Manor Phase 2, Stage 1, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE12296.

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, Kingsborough Manor: Phase 2, Stage II, Isle of Sheppey, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE17758.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2002, Kingsborough Manor Development, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, kent. Watching Briefs, Evaluation, and Phase 1, Stage 2 Excavation: Assessment Report and proposals for Post-Excavation Analyses and Publication (Unpublished document). SKE12297.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2008, Kingsborough Manor, Phase 3 Stages 1 and 2, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31436.

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