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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 35 SE 366
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Roman ditches, Sholden, field adjacent to London Road

Summary

Two ditches of Roman date.

Grid Reference:	TR 355 526
Map Sheet:	TR35SE
Parish:	DEAL, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

DITCH (DITCH, Unknown date)
DITCH (DITCH, Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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Site situated between cropmark complex and possible site of Roman villa (see TR 35 SE 4). Trial trenching in advance of development revealed 2 ditches interpreted as of agricultural origin, one of Roman date, (pottery in fill), the other undated. (1)

Two additional boundary or field ditches, dated to middle 2nd to early 3rd century [?]. Also scatter of worked flint of Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age date. (2)

Proposed Safeway Store development rejected and under appeal. (3)

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, London Rd: Proposed food store and filling station, Agreed statement, KCC/Safeway, 1993. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> RPS Clouston, 1993, Evaluation of proposed Safeways site at Sholden, Deal. (Unpublished document). SKE6791.

<3> RPS Coulson, 1993, London Rd, Sholden Agreed Statement between KCC and Safeway Stores on Proposed Foodstore development (Unpublished document). SKE6795.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. London Rd: Proposed food store and filling station, Agreed statement, KCC/Safeway, 1993..
<2>	Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1993. Evaluation of proposed Safeways site at Sholden, Deal..
<3>	Unpublished document: RPS Coulson. 1993. London Rd, Sholden Agreed Statement between KCC and Safeway Stores on Proposed Foodstore development.