Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Four Beaker burials, an Early Bronze Age ring ditch and burial.

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Archaeological Trust, 2015, The Meads, Sittingbourne, Kent, 2012 excavation, Archaeological assessment report (Unpublished document).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.

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