Monument record TR 36 SW 472 - Early Bronze Age Barrow 5 - Cliffsend Farm, Ramsgate, Thanet

Summary

Excavations ahead of the development of a site at Cliffsend Farm, Ramsgate, revealed a wide variety of interesting features and finds. The features included a group of Early Bronze Age barrows. Barrow five was heavily disturbed but appeared to comprised a double ring ditch, the outer ditch being formed by discontinuous segments. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 3483 6429 (20m by 22m) (6 map features)
Map sheet TR36SW
County KENT
District THANET, KENT
Civil Parish CLIFFSEND, THANET, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Barrow 5 was located to towards the northeastern end of the site. It comprised two ditches, the outer described not quite three quarters of a circuit 22m in external diameter. the circuit is not complete and consists of at least three segments of interrupted ditch the southeastern most segment was 7.92m long and 0.82m wide with a surviving depth of only 0.09m. the western end of this segment appeared to cut the next. The next segment west was 0.7m wide and very shallow. The western end of this segment was not observed, and it may be that the ditch is in fact continuous from this point. There was only one fill. The inner ditch survived only on the southern side, and this was highly truncated but measured 0.25m wide and 0.08m deep. If continuous, it would have described a circle with an external diameter of 13.82m. the lithic assemblage from barrow 5 is rather limited but includes scrapers of later Neolithic or Early Bronze Age type and an unfinished barbed and tanged arrowhead (from the fill of a tree throw) (information summarised from source) (1-4)


<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE13692.

<2> Jacqueline I. McKinley, Jörn Schuster and Andrew Millard, 2013, Dead-sea connections: A Bronze Age and Iron Age ritual site on the Isle of Thanet (Bibliographic reference). SKE24068.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2014, Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: a mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period (Bibliographic reference). SKE30562.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2004, Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, Kent: archaeological evaluation report (Unpublished document). SKE30563.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1>XY Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, Kent: Archaeological Assessment Report. [Mapped feature: #123979 Barrow, ]
  • <2> Bibliographic reference: Jacqueline I. McKinley, Jörn Schuster and Andrew Millard. 2013. Dead-sea connections: A Bronze Age and Iron Age ritual site on the Isle of Thanet.
  • <3> Bibliographic reference: Wessex Archaeology. 2014. Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: a mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period.
  • <4> Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2004. Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, Kent: archaeological evaluation report.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event Boundary: Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 (EKE13915)
  • Intrusive Event: Excavation at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate (Ref: 56950.04) (EKE23067)
  • Event Boundary: Excavation at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, 2004-5 (Ref: 56950.04) (EKE9955)

Record last edited

Apr 22 2024 5:52PM