Austin, S. (2018). An Archaeological Evaluation on Land at Stones Farm, Sittingbourne, Kent. Archaeology South East: Archaeology South East. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088589. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 An Archaeological Evaluation on Land at Stones Farm, Sittingbourne, Kent
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Abstract:		 An archaeological evaluation carried out by Archaeology South-East on Land at Stones Farm, Sittingbourne, Kent between 12th September and 28th September 2018. The fieldwork was commissioned by Chartway Group Ltd in advance of housing development and associated works. 89 trenches were excavated, a total of 140 features were revealed. The evaluation yielded a large number worked flints dating between the Mesolithic and Iron Age. The earliest cut features were three ditches dated to the Middle Bronze Age, via a pottery assemblage from the Deverel-Rimbury tradition. Boundary division is represented through ditches dating from the Middle Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Evidence of the Late Iron Age/Early Roman period was recorded in the form of a rectilinear double-ditched enclosure, adjacent to a high-energy water-source, thought to be precluding St Thomas Beckett's Spring. This may be an example of Roman road-site settlement relating to Watling Street. Two large possible extraction pits were recorded adjacent to the enclosure area, thought to be associated with brickearth quarrying. Additional Late Iron Age/ Early Roman pottery assemblages were recovered from ditches further west, though to be continuing fieldscape activity. Perpetuation of pastoral land division was present within a small number of medieval ditches. Two walls, a man-made pond and a metalled trackway of post-medieval date likely remnant of the buildings of Stones Farm were recorded. A further potential extraction pit in the immediate vicinity of the buildings, a large ditch and pit in the south-eastern area of the site were also dated to this period.
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Author:		 S Austin
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Publisher:		 Archaeology South East
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Kent SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2018
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Site: Land at Stones Farm
County: Kent
District: Swale
Parish: BAPCHILD
Country: England
Grid Reference: 592763, 163482 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FARMSTEAD (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: archaeol6-332573
OBIB: Report number: 2018334
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Note:		 Archaeological evaluation report - grey literature
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021