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Monument details

Summary

A Late Bronze Age ditch containing Middle Bronze Age Deverel Rimbury pottery and worked flints recorded in 1998 during Channel Tunnel Rail Link excavation work.

Monument Types

• DITCH (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
• TRACKWAY? (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 701 BC?)

Associated Finds

• BURNT FLINT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 701 BC?)
• FLAKE (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)
• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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A Late Bronze Age ditch containing Middle Bronze Age Deverel Rimbury pottery and worked flints. The ditch appeared to be associated with a road orientated from east to west. The large size of many of the sherds and the presence of joining fragments suggest that little redeposition occurred and therefore that this ditch was open and in use at the time of original deposition. Fragments of burnt and struck flint were also found in this ditch, but could not be dated more precisely than to the middle and late Bronze Age. To the north of this ditch was a linear stained area which contained numerous fragments of burnt flint charcoal and gravel pebbles. The surface may represent the eroded remains of a trackway or roughly surface road, which had formed a hollow way with which the ditch was probably associated. This track is parallel to the later medieval Watling Street. (1-8)

<1> CgMs Consulting, May 2004, Archaeological Desk Based Assesment of Land at Stuart Road, Gravesend, Kent (Unpublished document). SWX12856.

<[1]> CgMs Consulting, May 2004, Archaeological Desk Based Assesment of Land at Stuart Road, Gravesend, Kent (Unpublished document). SWX12856.

<2> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Radiocarbon dates from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16490.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Early Prehistoric Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16485.

<4> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Prehistoric Worked Flint from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16489.

<5> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1997, Cobham Park Golf Course, Cobham, Kent Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE7066.

<6> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Prehistoric Worked Flint from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Unpublished document). SKE16596.

<7> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The Later Prehistoric Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16486.

<8> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, The prehistoric and post-medieval landscapes at Cobham Golf Course, Cobham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17912.

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