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Monument details

Summary

Bronze Age barrow and inhumation burials.

Monument Types

• CROUCHED INHUMATION (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• SHERD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• COLLARED URN (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)

Full description

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TR 355 515 Bronze Age discoveries at Deal. During development of a site at St Richard's Road, Deal, for housing, a ring ditch enclosing two inhumations of probable Bronze Age date was located and recorded. This was subsequently destroyed by the development. (1)

Additional Info (2)

Excavated in 1977 by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit when the houses on the site were being built. Traces of a ring ditch, possibly recut three times, were found, describing a barrow of about 26m across. Two crouched inhumations were excavated on the eastern side of the barrow, within the ring ditch on the mound itself. A third burial was recovered by workmen from a foundation trench towards the centre of the mound and may represent the primary burial. (3)

<1> PPS 44 1978 448 (B Philp) (OS Card Reference). SKE48603.

<2> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1996, Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE7108.

<3> Brian Philp, 2012, A Bronze Age barrow at Great Mongeham, Deal, Kent Archaeological Review 189: 221-226 (Article in serial). SKE17701.

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