Grant, K. (2008). An Archaeological Evaluation on Land at Well Road, Otford, Kent. Archaeology South-East. https://doi.org/10.5284/1020663. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 An Archaeological Evaluation on Land at Well Road, Otford, Kent
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Series:		 Archaeology South East unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological evaluation was carried out on land at Well Road, Otford, Kent (NGR: TQ 532 592). The work was carried out between the 21st and 24th April for CgMs Consulting Ltd. Fourteen trenches were excavated to a cumulative length of 195.0m in advance of a proposed new residential construction to assess the archaeological potential of the site. Although the site lies within an area of moderate potential for the Mesolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo Saxon/early Medieval, and of good potential for Roman and late Medieval remains no archaeological cut features were present in any of the trenches. However, many of the trenches uncovered datable finds (potsherds, ceramic building material (CBM), flint and glass) from the topsoil and colluvial ploughsoil deposits. The recovered artefactual material mostly indicated residual activity from the post-medieval period up to the mid 20th century but some residual Neolithic flint flakes and late medieval peg-tile fragments were also recovered from these deposits. The assemblage is entirely consistent with a normal background scatter that would have been deposited as waste material through agricultural manuring. The underlying natural geology comprising chalk bedrock was encountered at a maximum height of 74.85m OD in the north-east of the site falling away to 73.27m OD in the south-west. Within all the trenches, above the natural were topsoil/turf deposits overlying a process of silty-clay colluvial subsoil/ploughsoil varying in thickness from trench to trench.
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Author:		 K Grant
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Publisher:		 Archaeology South-East
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2008
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Site: Well Road, Otford
Parish: OTFORD
District: Sevenoaks
County: Kent
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Well Road Otford Kent
Grid Reference: 553200, 159200 (Easting, Northing)
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MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) Flint (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Pottery, Glass And Cbm (Find)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) NONE (Monus)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
Postmedieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)
MESOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
Mid 20th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
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OASIS Id: archaeol6-42714
OBIB: report number 2008065
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Note:		 A4 bound grey report with ASE front cover.
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Created Date:		 25 Nov 2016