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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 86 SE 286 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Beaker and Early Bronze Age burials, The Meads, Sittingbourne |
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Summary
Four Beaker burials, an Early Bronze Age ring ditch and burial.
Grid Reference: | TQ 8927 6473 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ86SE |
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Parish: | BOBBING, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CREMATION (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- CROUCHED INHUMATION? (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
Associated Finds
- BEAKER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- CREMATION (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
Full description
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In 2008 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out a watching brief and excavation. The earliest features found were four Beaker burials. These do not appear to have been within a barrow. One of the burials was accompanied by a beaker with a cremation within it. In the Early Bronze Age a ring ditch was dug on the western part of the site. There was no central burial found but a possible off-centre burial was found. (1)
The ring ditch is one of four identified as cropmarks in the area (TQ 86 SE 30).
<1> Weekes, J., 2012, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 299-300 (Article in serial). SKE25119.
<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2015, The Meads, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2012 excavation, Archaeological assessment report (Unpublished document). SKE53675.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Article in serial: Weekes, J.. 2012. Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports. Arch Cant CXXXII: 291-305. Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 299-300. |
<2> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2015. The Meads, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2012 excavation, Archaeological assessment report. |
Related records
TQ 86 SE 30 | Parent of: Cropmarks (3 ring ditches) (Monument) |