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Monument details

Summary

A round barrow was visible on aerial photographs at Lord of the Manor near Ozengell, one of the Lord of the Manor barrow group. Excavation revealed that is was inserted into a neolithic enclosure

Monument Types

• ENCLOSURE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2800 BC to 1501 BC)
• ROUND BARROW (Early Bronze Age to Unknown - 2100 BC)

Associated Finds

• HUMAN REMAINS (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2800 BC to 2300 BC)
• WORKED FLINT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2800 BC to 1501 BC)

Full description

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A round barrow was visible on aerial photographs at Lord of the Manor near Ozengell, one of the Lord of the Manor barrow group. Excavation revelaed that is was inserted into a neolithic enclosure.

The site was excavated by the Thanet Archaeological Unit from 1976 to 1982.



"The ring-ditched enclosures marked as LOM 1-6 are part of a possibly middle, certainly late neolithic to early Bronze Age ceremonial landscape in use between c. 2800-1700 BC. Of these LOM1, 2D, 3A [this site] and 2 smaller ring-ditches were entirely stripped and excavated in 1976 and 1977, LOM 5 sample trenched during the 1980s and LOM 6 remains unexcavated as a Scheduled Monument.

The first main phase of later neolithic activity is represented by the large enclosures that were later occupied by barrows. LOM 1 had no internal feautres but produced large quantities of residual later neolithic worked flint and grooved ware pottery. LOM 2D [this site] was smaller but had a causewayed entrance on its south-west side and a chalk platform with a hearth area inside a small post built structure with a porch. The flint and pottery was again late neolithic. LOM 3A [this site] also had no features but produced large quantities of flint and the skull of a young woman from the primary fill of the ditch.

The second main phase of neolithic activity saw the continuing use of the enclosures for social gathering and ceremonies. Fragments of beaker pottery were recovered from "the first two enclosures." LOM 1 produced sherds of finely made beakers with decoration using careful corded and comb-tip decoration dated to c. 2300-2000 BC."(4) (5)

<1> OS Card / NAR index entry. Arch Cant 92, 1976, 254-5 (OS Card Reference). SKE48406.

<2> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1977, The Excavation of a Neolithic/Bronze Age Site at Lord of The Manor, Haine Road, Ramsgate (Monograph). SWX7109.

<3> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Interim Report 1976, 13-17
and 1977-80 (OS Card Reference). SKE44523.

<4> Thanet Archaeological Society, 2012, Lord of the Manor, Ramsgate (Bibliographic reference). SKE32078.

<5> Alison Deegan, 2013, Air photo and lidar mapping and interpretation for land at Ozengell Grange, Ramsgate, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31449.

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