Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Early Bronze Age activity was found across part of the site in the form of Beaker and Collared Urn fragments but also two small clusters of pits and a variety of other features.

Monument Types

• CREMATION BURIAL (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 1501 BC?)
• FIELD SYSTEM? (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• PIT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• POST HOLE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds

• CORE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• CREMATION (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 1501 BC?)
• END SCRAPER (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• FLAKE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• HAMMERSTONE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• KNIFE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• ROUGHOUT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• SHERD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Full description

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In 2007/8 Wessex Archaeology carried out a programme of works. An area of the site contained a number of Early Bronze Age features, with material of this date also recovered from later features in the same area. Two small clusters of Beaker pits were found. Material from these pits included grain and weed seeds, a large number of worked flints, including 34 scrapers from one pit and sherds of pottery. Flintworking debris had been dumped in the pits, one pit contained an arrowhead roughout. Flints were refitted from different pits, suggesting that the pits had been open at the same time and received dumps of material from the same source. One of the pits had flints placed against the edges of the pit, presumably deliberately. Another possibly deliberately placed deposit was found at the base of a pit, consisting of a set of tools - four end-scrapers, two backed knives, a broken blade and a hammerstone, with sherds of pottery. This was all associated with a large quantity of hazelnuts. Other features included three post holes in a triangular arrangement and clay-lined pits. Parts of a field system (TQ 67 SW 1356) may have been established in this period. A number of the ditches had Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age objects in basal fills or in termini. An un-urned cremation burial was also found, it was dated to this period on the basis of proximity to other features. (1)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2008, Archaeological Investigations at Springhead Quarter (Phase II), Northfleet, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report and Updated Project design (Unpublished document). SKE17943.

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