Monument record TR 35 NW 111 - Bronze Age or Iron Age pits

TR 3376 5504. Iron Age site. Two pits located in the face of an old chalk quarry at Hacklinge Holes, Worth, by Mr R Tyman of Ramsgate, were excavated by Dover Archaeological Group in June 1983. One pit produced a large amount of Early Iron Age pottery 'tentatively dated to 850-650 BC' a loom-weight, an amber bead and several large briquetage fragments. The other pit produced only a few sherds of Iron Age pottery. (1)

The pits were subsequently described as being of Bronze age date, dating to about 1000 BC. (2)

<1> Arch Cant 99 1983 290 (K Parfitt) (OS Card Reference). SKE36354.

<2> Dover Archaeological Group, 1990, Brief Report on the Excavations by Dover Archaeological Group in the Area of the Roman Temple at Worth, in Kent (Unpublished document). SKE11891.