Monument record TR 34 NE 256 - Probable Bronze Age Ditches and Gullies, St Margaret's at Cliffe
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 36186 46191 (point) Estimated from sources |
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Map sheet | TR34NE |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (4)
Full Description
A small group of ditches/gullies, re-cut at least once on a slightly different line, which seem likely to relate to a group of ditched enclosures running diagonally across the hillside. A 1.65 m gap between two of the ditches might represent an entrance. In this area a complex of stake-holes which could relate to successive fences that blocked the causeway.
The arcing nature of one of the ditches could have been due to some pre-existing structure, possibly circular and to the east, which required a deviation. On the eastern side of the ditch a number of stake holes were found, but these were insufficient to postulate a building here. A number of worked flints were recovered, mainly from the ditches, of a late bronze age date. The struck flints were predominantly hard hammer-struck and inaddition two end scrapers, two hammerstones,a d a core possibly reused as a hammerstone.(1)
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the Deal-Dover Bulk Supply Water Main (Unpublished document). SKE12191.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SKE12191 Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2002. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief on the Deal-Dover Bulk Supply Water Main.
Finds (1)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
- Intrusive Event: Watching Brief along the Dover Deal- Bulk Supply Water Main (Ref: DDBS-01) (EKE8504)
Record last edited
Mar 14 2008 11:47AM