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Monument details

HER Number:TR 35 SE 37
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Belgic and Roman finds; Belgic pottery and late Bronze Age spearhead (poss site)

Summary

A Bronze Age spearhead, Iron Age and Roman pottery, a Roman lamp and mortariummay have come from a disused sandpit in this area.

Grid Reference:TR 3705 5324
Map Sheet:TR35SE
Parish:DOVER, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Roman - 4000 BC to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • SHERD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • LAMP (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
  • MORTARIUM (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

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Belgic pottery found in North Walls sandpits is noted by Mr Manser, resident in Deal until c. 1920. The sandpits are not known of locally by name, but W.P.D Stebbing on his MS 2" map has 'Keltic' and 'Ro finds' symbols over a sandpit at TR 37055324 which is 150m south of Northwall Road, and is the only one in the area. It is now disused and overgrown. Fragments of EIA pottery presented to the BM in 1915 (a) may have come from this site, also a LBA leaf-shaped bronze spearhead on display in Deal Castle Museum (Deal Town Hall Collection) "from a sandpit at North Deal". (1) TR 37055324. Before 1921: A fine mortarium, a lamp and some other pottery, perhaps including Iron Age and Belgic sherds, were found in as and pit 'at North Deal'. The site is probably the disused pit at TR 37055324. (2)

Additional Info(8).


<1> F1 ASP 22-JUL-1964 (OS Card Reference). SKE42232.

<2> Maidstone Museum Archaeol Gaz (In progress) (Mr Manser undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46448.

<3> Stebbing MS Notes, Deal Public Library (OS Card Reference). SKE49671.

<4> Card with exhibit Deal Castle Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE38592.

<5> Parfitt, K., 1982, Roman Finds from the Sandhills, North of Deal, KAR 70 Winter 1982 225-7 (K Parfitt) (Article in serial). SKE8141.

<6> Story of Dola: A Romantic Hist of Early Brit 1921 133 (HS Chapman) (OS Card Reference). SKE49680.

<7> Field report for monument TR 35 SE 37 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6098.

<8> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1996, Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent (Unpublished document).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 22-JUL-1964.
<2>OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Archaeol Gaz (In progress) (Mr Manser undated).
<3>OS Card Reference: Stebbing MS Notes, Deal Public Library.
<4>OS Card Reference: Card with exhibit Deal Castle Museum.
<5>XYArticle in serial: Parfitt, K.. 1982. Roman Finds from the Sandhills, North of Deal. 70 Pages 225 - 227. KAR 70 Winter 1982 225-7 (K Parfitt). [Mapped feature: #58581 finds, ]
<6>OS Card Reference: Story of Dola: A Romantic Hist of Early Brit 1921 133 (HS Chapman).
<7>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 35 SE 37 - July, 1964.
<8>Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1996. Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent.