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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NW 1146 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Romano-British cemetery discovered during the East Kent Access Route excavations (2009-2011) |
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Summary
During the East Kent Access Route excavations (2009-2011) a small inhumation cemetery ('the western cemetery') consisting of 9 burials was found in zone 19. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 6333 1654 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR61NW |
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| Parish: | MINSTER, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- (Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age - 410 BC to 200 BC)
- (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- BROOCH (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- COLLAR (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- FINGER RING (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- RING (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- PIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
- RING (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Full description
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A second cemetery (the western cemetery) lay within Zone 19, approximately 150m west of the main cemetery. This small group comprised nine inhumations, all aligned north-south and lying north of a Roman trackway. A further possible grave was situated 40m to the east and may have been an outlier but contained no human remains. All the inhumations were in sub oval graves which were shallow and been truncated by ploughing. Some burials were accompanied by grave goods, most notabley copper alloy rings and a little collar. At least one appears to have been spatially associated with a curving linear ditch 0.2m wide and less than 0.1m deep, which may have been part of an enclosure surrounding the burial, though this is not certain as no dating evidence was produced for this ditch. (information summarised from sources (1-2)
<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2011, East Kent Access (Phase II), Thanet, Kent: Post-Excavation Assessment Volume 1 (Unpublished document). SKE29279.
<2> Andrews et al, 2015, Digging The Gateway: Archaeological Landscapes of South Thanet. The Archaeology of East Kent Access (Phase III) Vol 1: The sites (Monograph). SKE55517.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2011. East Kent Access (Phase II), Thanet, Kent: Post-Excavation Assessment Volume 1. |
| <2> | Monograph: Andrews et al. 2015. Digging The Gateway: Archaeological Landscapes of South Thanet. The Archaeology of East Kent Access (Phase III) Vol 1: The sites. |
Related records
| TR 36 NW 1137 | Part of: Roman fields and enclosures, possibly part of a 'ladder' settlement discovered during the East Kent Access Route excavations (2009-2011) (Monument) |
