Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Trial trenching in 2012 carried out by the Thanet Archaeological Society immediately west of Haine Road discovered evidence of mid to late iron age to mid Roman activity. This was in the form of ditches and hollows and was accompanied by rather limited pottery but also post-Roman pottery and prehistoric flints. These included a early neolitihcn leaf-shaped arrowhead, a late neolithic to early bronze age flint knifge and a complete early bronze age barbed and tanged arrowhead. Late aerial photographic survey in 2013 confirmed that the site was part of a large enclosure, most of which lay on the east side of Haine Road.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Middle Iron Age to Roman - 400 BC to 200 AD)
• ENCLOSURE (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
• HOLLOW (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

• LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
• KNIFE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
• BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Middle Iron Age to Late Iron Age - 400 BC to 42 AD)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 50 AD to 200 AD)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Medieval - 1100 AD to 1300 AD)

Full description

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Trial trenching in 2012 carried out by the Thanet Archaeological society discovered evidence of mid to late iron age to mid Roman activity adjacent to Haine Road. This was in the form of ditches and hollows and was accompanied by rather limited pottery but also post-Roman pottery and prehistoric flints. These included a early neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead, a late neolithic to early bronze age flint knife and a complete early bronze age barbed and tanged arrowhead. (1)

Air photo analaysis carried out in 2013 confirmed that the site was a large enclosure, most of which extended east of Haine Road although it is not certain that the whole enclosure was of iron age date as some parts coincide with Tithe Map boundaries.(2)

<1> Thanet Archaeological Society, 2012, Lord of the Manor, Ramsgate (Bibliographic reference). SKE32078.

<2> Alison Deegan, 2013, Air photo and lidar mapping and interpretation for land at Ozengell Grange, Ramsgate, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31449.

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