Description: The area under investigation was located to the north of the existing London to Folkestone railway. It was bounded to the east by open farmland, to the north by private housing, and immediately to the west by fields recently the subject of an archaeological excavation by CAT on behalf of URS and interpreted as a medieval metalworking site (ARC MSH 98). A total of ten trenches was excavated, archaeological features being identified in two of these. The features were interpreted as a series of pits, and a large ditch. The ditch is believed to be the continuation of a ditch observed in the area previously excavated, and thought to represent the southern boundary to the site. The density of features encountered was low, and no direct evidence for metalworking was evident. Despite this the presence of the identified features tentatively suggests that the original limits of the medieval metalworking site continued eastwards into the study area.
Year Start: 1998
Year End: 2002
Country: England
County: Kent
District: Ashford
Parish: Mersham
Named Location: East of Mersham
Grid Reference:
TR053392
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 605350, 139200
Period: 20TH CENTURY , 21ST CENTURY, EARLY MEDIEVAL, IRON AGE, POST MEDIEVAL
Subject: ARCHAEOLOGY, BRICK, DAUB, DITCH, EVALUATION, EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY)--ENGLAND, FEATURE, LINEAR DITCH, METAL WORKING SITE, PEG TILE, PIT, POND, SHERD, TILE
Identifiers:
[ADS] Associated Id: DOI: 10.5284/1044707
[ADS] Import RCN: MEAE02-01
People Involved:
[Publisher] Union Railways (South) Ltd
[Creator] Canterbury Archaeological Trust
[Creator] Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd., 92a Broad Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2LU.
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