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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 NW 1143 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Iron Age and Roman pottery on foreshore, Cliffe Creek, Cliffe |
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Summary
A plank and a scatter of singular stakes amongst a scatter of Late Iron Age and Roman pottery on the foreshore by Cliffe Creek. The foreshore has a number of peat exposures. Identified during a survey in 2005.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 70824 77141 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NW |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
Associated Finds
- POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 409 AD)
- VESSEL (Late Iron Age to Roman - 100 BC to 99 AD)
Full description
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A plank and a scatter of singular stakes. In between lots of probably Late Iron Age and Roman pottery. The pottery comprises a shelly ware bead rim jar, a shelly ware storage jar with impressed decoration on the shoulder both dating between the first century BC to the first century AD, and a sherd from a samian platter of Drag. 18 form dating from the middle to late first century AD. There are peat banks distributed all over area, probably the remains of a former saltmarsh. (1)
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
