Title: |
The Excavation of a Later Bronze Age Site at Coldharbur Road, Northfleet; Client Report June 1994 |
Number of Pages: |
90 |
Biblio Note |
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Publication Type: |
Report
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Abstract: |
Further excavation and a watching brief were carried out on the site of a new supermarket and access roundabout. The main archaeological components comprised mutually aligned ditches and gullies, suggesting the main function of land division and demarcation. Two parallel linear ditches associated with smaller ditches and gullies are interpreted as a droveway with attached settlement, dated by ceramics and by radiocarbon to the Later Bronze Age. The site provides the first good evidence for large scale land division of this period in Kent. It is suggested that the settlement was an arable counterpart to specialised transhumant pastoralism on higher and lower ground. A large quantity of flintwork was recovered mostly being Bronze Age in date. Medieval chalk pits were also recorded. [Au(abr)] |
Author: |
Andrew Mudd
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Publisher: |
Oxford Archaeology
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Year of Publication: |
1993
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Locations: |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Coldharbur Road Northfleet |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Kent |
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Subjects / Periods: |
Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal) |
BRONZE AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1993
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: LATER BRONZE AGE SITE AT COLDHARBOUR ROAD, NORTHFLEET Study area: 2.8ha Investigation type: Post-determination/Research District: Gravesham Monument: SETTLEMENT. Bronze Age, HEARTH. Undated, FEATURES. Undated, ENCLOSURE. Undated, GULLIES. Bronze Age, CHALK PITS. Medieval (1066-1540), DITCHES. Bronze Age, [Rectilinear] FEATURE. Undated, POST HOLES. Undated, LINEAR FEATURES. Bronze Age, PITS. Undated, PI Ngr: TQ63807170 Parish: Postcode: DA118AB
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Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |