Perkins, W. (2020). Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course, Maidstone, Kent ME12 3AZ. An Archaeological Evaluation. Brockley: Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited. https://doi.org/10.5284/1089681. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course, Maidstone, Kent ME12 3AZ. An Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (London) unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological evaluation undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology at the Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course, Maidstone, Kent ME14 3AZ centred at National Grid Reference TQ 75126 59174. The study site occupied a series of undulating shallow valleys varying in height from 44.87m OD to as low as 23.58m OD. The fieldwork was undertaken in two phases in March in 2019 and March 2020; 19 evaluation trenches were excavated across the site. The excavation exposed the underlying bedrock of chalk at 44.63m OD. Drift geology varied between a clay-with-flints cap on the higher ground to Gault-like clays and sands in the lower areas where a degree of colluvium had formed. A number of heavily-patinated worked flints were recovered from the interface with the natural. An Iron Age enclosure ditch was uncovered i oriented east-west and measuring c.2.54m wide and was over 1.10m deep. Several sherds of Iron Age pottery and butchered cattle and red deer bone were recovered from its quaternary fill. A narrow ditch (or gully) was located in Trench 11 which was oriented north-west to south-east. It was of small proportions only measuring 0.62m wide and 0.0.35m deep but its fill contained worked flint. A colluvium or subsoil was present in only a limited number of trenches; where it was present it contained heavily abraded fragments of pottery, CBM and glass as well as charcoal flecks suggesting prior farming practices such as field manuring. This phase was also characterised by the presence of field drains and light tree clearance all suggestive of low-scale agricultural land management on clays prone to holding water. The map regression exercise illustrates that the site was used for light agriculture from the 18th-19th and well into the 20th century.
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Author:		 W Perkins
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Publisher:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited
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Other Person/Org:		 Kent SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2020
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Site: Cobtree Manor Park Golf Course
Parish: MAIDSTONE
County: Kent
District: Maidstone
Country: England
Grid Reference: 575126, 159174 (Easting, Northing)
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IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
LATE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
EARLY PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)
ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
SHERD (Object England)
STRUCK FLINT (Find)
LITHIC SCATTER (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
GULLY (Monument Type England)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: preconst1-389496
OBIB: PCA Report R14078
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Note:		 A4 grey literature book with PCA covers
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021