Newlands (East of), ARC NEW 97


Description:  As part of a wider programme of archaeological investigation along the route of the proposed Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to evaluate a strip of land situated to the north of the M20 and approximately 8km to the west of Ashford, Kent. The site was split into three different sized areas; a stream separating the central and eastern. The site was centred on 73929/27857 on the URL site grid and 22 trenches and hand dug test pits were excavated to sample the evaluation area. The site had been identified as having good archaeological potential during earlier fieldwalking (OAU 1994).

Year Start:  1997

Year End:  2002

Country:  England

County:  Kent

District:  Ashford

Parish:  Charing

Named Location:  East of Newlands

Named Location:  Newlands

Grid Reference:   TQ940478

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 594000, 147800

Period:  EARLY NEOLITHIC , LATE IRON AGE, MEDIEVAL, MESOLITHIC, POST MEDIEVAL, ROMAN

Subject:  BLADE, BOTTLE, BRICK, BUCKLE, BURIED SOIL HORIZON, ARCHAEOLOGY, BURNT FLINT, CERAMIC, COOKING VESSEL, CORE, DAUB, DITCH, EVALUATION, EXCAVATIONS (ARCHAEOLOGY)--ENGLAND, FIELD SYSTEM, FIRE PIT, FLAKE, HEARTH, LITHIC IMPLEMENT, LITHIC SCATTER, METAL WORKING DEBRIS, MICROLITH, MUSKET BALL, NAIL, OVEN, PIT, PLANT REMAINS, RING, ROAD, ROOF TILE, RUBBISH PIT, ROMAN ROAD, SCRAPER (TOOL), SHERD, SLAG, TEGULA, TEST PIT, TREE THROW

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Associated Id: DOI: 10.5284/1044735
[ADS] Import RCN: NEAN02-01

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Union Railways (South) Ltd
[Creator] Museum of London Archaeology Service
[Creator] URL Archive
[Creator] Museum of London Archaeology

Bibliographic References: 

  • URL. 1994. Union Railways Limited, Channel Tunnel Rail Link: Assessment of Historic and Cultural Effects. Final Report. (Four volumes. Prepared for URL by OAU).
  • URL. 1997. East Of Newlands ARC NEW97. An Archaeological Evaluation. Union Railways Ltd.