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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 35 SE 9 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Beaker burial |
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Summary
Crouched burial with B2 beaker
| Grid Reference: | TR 3576 5193 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35SE |
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| Parish: | DEAL, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- POT (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2450 BC to 2001 BC)
- BEAKER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
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In February 1949, during excavations for the foundations of the new Deal Mongeham County Primary School, a crouched burial was found at a depth of about 5.5 feet in a pit dug into the chalk and orientated ENE-WSW at approx TR 35765193. The burial was accompanied by a barrel-shaped B2 beaker with incised lines and a cordon below the rim, and possibly by a second. The beaker was dated to c1000 BC. The beaker and skull are in Deal Castle Museum (Stebbing Collection). (1)
Additional Info(5)
<1> F1 ASP 21-JUL-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42222.
<2> Arch Cant 64 1951 150 (WPD Stebbing) (OS Card Reference). SKE35371.
<3> Arch Cant 68 1954 204 (WPD Stebbing) (OS Card Reference). SKE35427.
<4> Field report for monument TR 35 SE 9 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6077.
<5> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1996, Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE7108.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 21-JUL-64. |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 64 1951 150 (WPD Stebbing). [Mapped feature: #58290 burial, ] |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 68 1954 204 (WPD Stebbing). |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 35 SE 9 - July, 1964. |
| <5> | Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1996. Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent. |
