TQ 76 NW 41 - Probable Iron Age bone comb, pick and pottery, Strood cemetery

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Findspot record TQ 76 NW 41 - Probable Iron Age bone comb, pick and pottery, Strood cemetery

Summary

A large number of pottery fragments, a red deer antler pick and bone comb found during the planting of trees along the southern wall in a cemetery at Strood. The pottery was thrown away by the workmen, but the comb was comparable to examples found at Maiden Castle, Dorset.

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Grid reference	TQ 7278 6845 (point) FCE
Map sheet	TQ76NW
Civil Parish	ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
County	KENT
Unitary Authority	MEDWAY

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FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Full Description

During the planting of trees along the southern wall in the new cemetery at Strood, workmen threw out a quantity of blackened earth containing numerous pottery fragments, a red deer antler pick and "a comb or fork-like instrument manufactured from the rib-bone of some animal"; compared by Payne to combs found at Maiden Castle, Dorset. The pottery was thrown away unexamined. (1-3) The south wall of this cemetery which extends for some 260.0 m. is lined with firs of uncertain date: it is centred at TQ 7279 6845. No subsequent finds are known to have been made there. (4)

<1> PSA 2nd Ser 13 1889-91 188 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE48779.

<2> Arch Cant 21 1895 xlvii (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE34835.

<3> "Coll Cant" 1893 131 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE32604.

<4> F1 CFW 19-DEC-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42649.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 76 NW 41 - December, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4108.

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<1> SKE48779 OS Card Reference: PSA 2nd Ser 13 1889-91 188 (G Payne).
<2> SKE34835 OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 21 1895 xlvii (G Payne).
<3>XY SKE32604 OS Card Reference: "Coll Cant" 1893 131 (G Payne). [Mapped feature: #22733 cemetery, ]
<4> SKE42649 OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 19-DEC-64.
<5> SKE4108 Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 76 NW 41 - December, 1964.

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Record last edited

Jul 27 2021 2:27PM