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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 NW 1034 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Saltmounds, Cliffe Marshes, Cliffe |
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Summary
Saltmounds identified from aerial photographs but not marked on any of the Ordnance Survey historic edition maps. No further information available at present.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 71855 77234 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77NW |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Roman kiln and possible medieval saltmound |
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Full description
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Saltmounds. Photograph (1).
Satlings in the Cliffe and Cooling Marshes area were identified. The north Kent "Thameside" marshes, like at Cliffe and Cooling, are linked with salterns and potteries associated with salt industry. A distinctive type of shell-empered storage jar arose from this vicinity and it may have well been a storage jar fro salt to transport it. The production of the jars seem to have barely outlasted the 2nd century AD, possible related with the decline of the salt industry in this region. Similar sat works can be found at Harty Marshes on the Isle of Sheppy. (2)
<1> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10110.
<2> RCHME, 1995, Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary (Unpublished document). SKE17329.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 2043. print. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: RCHME. 1995. Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary. |
