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
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