Monument record TQ 56 NW 25 - Possible Iron Age features, south of Hulberry

Summary

Excavations by S. Priest in 1915 and 1917, in the chalk pit on Hulberry, or Hulbury Farm at TQ 5242 6533, revealed pits, hearths, large quantities of bones of domestic animals, including horse, a saddle quern, triangular loom weights, and fragments of early Iron Age finger-tip impressed pottery and a footring bowl dated by Kenyon to the C1st AD. Priest suggests the site was an enclosed settlement (although there is no evidence that enclosure banks and ditches were found, or indeed sought). Priest never properly published his excavations but there are a number of references to the pottery, which is in Dartford Museum, and Radford includes it in his list of pits of Little Woodbury type. There is no record of subsequent work on the site and nothing was found when the orchard was grubbed up. It is now under plough and the pit shows as a shallow depression

Location

Grid reference TQ 5241 6532 (point) FCE
Map sheet TQ56NW
County KENT
Civil Parish EYNSFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

Map

Type and Period (3)

Full Description

<1> Dartford Museum File (Crockenhill 913 Archaeology) (OS Card Reference). SKE39672.

<2> 8th Inst of Arch Ann Rep 1952 59 61 (K M Kenyon) (OS Card Reference). SKE32751.

<3> PPS 20 1955 24 (C A Ralegh Radford) (OS Card Reference). SKE48583.

<4> Ward Perkins, J. B., 1939, Excavations on Oldbury Hill, Ightham, 1938, Arch Cant 51 1939 159 164 166 (J B Ward Perkins)8c (Article in serial). SKE11896.

<5> Arch 90 1944 168 171 and fig 18 (J B Ward Perkins) (OS Card Reference). SKE34460.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: Dartford Museum File (Crockenhill 913 Archaeology).
  • <2> OS Card Reference: 8th Inst of Arch Ann Rep 1952 59 61 (K M Kenyon).
  • <3> OS Card Reference: PPS 20 1955 24 (C A Ralegh Radford).
  • <4>XY Article in serial: Ward Perkins, J. B.. 1939. Excavations on Oldbury Hill, Ightham, 1938. Vol LI pages 137 - 81. Arch Cant 51 1939 159 164 166 (J B Ward Perkins)8c. [Mapped feature: #44185 Iron Age settlement, ]
  • <5> OS Card Reference: Arch 90 1944 168 171 and fig 18 (J B Ward Perkins).

Finds (4)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Intrusive Event: HULBERRY FARM (Ref: EI 14757) (EKE3808)

Record last edited

Apr 16 2021 1:47PM