[ TQ 5667 7509 - sited from plan.] [See AO/56/211/8]. In 1945, while quarrying for gravel, workmen recovered eighteen pots from the east end of Stone Court Pit, about a mile west of Stone village. The pots were in a line, in groups which included a cinerary urn, a flagon and a cup or beaker, and fifteen may be dated to the Hadrian-Antonine period while three were Iron Age South-eastern B derivatives and represent a survival into the 2nd c. Two of the urns contained calcined human bones and it may be assumed two others originally did so. About 30 to 35 pots, probably in nine groups, are estimated to have been seen, the mechanical excavator having destroyed some. The surviving pottery is in Dartford Museum. The site is now under water (1). Gravel pit now disused (2) and an additional reference (3).

<1> Arch.J.104,1951,46-50 plan illust(MA Cotton & KM Richardson) (OS Card Reference). SKE37202.

<2> F1 AC 20-JUL-60 (OS Card Reference). SKE41819.

<3> Field report for monument TQ 57 NE 10 - July, 1960 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3024.