(TR 35097009) ROMAN BUILDING [R] site of [NAT] (1) During the construction of Tivoli Park Avenue, Margate in 1924, Dr Arthur Rowe observed a house which could not be excavated, the road having been built over it. Walls 3.5 feet thick, of large flints from the North Foreland area, were found W of the road, as well as coloured fresco from four different rooms, hypocaust tiles, nails, a razor and bronze fibula, supposedly of the C1st and, it is said, an iron window frame. (2) Foundation of at least three rooms are visible on the E side of the road (a). Siting confirmed (b). (3) Pottery from this site is on exhibition in Margate Public Library. There is no record of subsequent finds from the area which is now fully developed. (4) A Roman rotary quern was found, by chance, near the Tivoli villa site. (5) Roman house found in Tivoli Park Avenue in 1924. (6) In Tivoli Park, N of Hartsdown Road, at least four rooms of a Roman villa have been discovered. (7) TR 352702 (Sited to nearest 50 m) Romano-British villa excavated in 1923. Site No.7. (8) Notes on an Iron Age urn. (9) This site was partly excavated by Dr A. Rowe in 1924. The finds include two pottery kilns, midden material, cooking stones, a large Celtic 'comb-worked' vessel. Pottery making continued at this site from c500 BC to c400 AD. (10) Additional bibliography - not consulted. (11) KE 64 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (12) additional references (13- 16)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> JRS 14 1924 240 (RA Collingwood and MV Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE45043.

<3> F1 GCS 07-APR-53 (OS Card Reference). SKE43007.

<4> Ground photo Margate Public Library (OS Card Reference). SKE43639.

<5> AE Pinkenburgh Chief Assistant Margate Borough Engineers Dept (OS Card Reference). SKE32987.

<6> F2 CFW 27-SEP-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43286.

<7> Arch Cant 85 1970 188 (DG Scurrell) (OS Card Reference). SKE35810.

<8> VCH Kent 1932 12 (OS Card Reference). SKE50932.

<9> The Buildings of Eng NE and E Kent 1903 384 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50158.

<10> Thanet The Archaeological Heritage c1982 4 (Thanet District Council and Isle of Thanet Archaeologica (OS Card Reference). SKE49904.

<11> Ant JV 1925 164-5 (A Rowe) (OS Card Reference). SKE33226.

<12> Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

<13> The Kent Messenger 30.05.1925 (OS Card Reference). SKE50401.

<14> Field report for monument TR 37 SE 9 - April, 1953 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6301.

<15> Field report for monument TR 37 SE 9 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6302.

<16> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Monuments Archive 1988 Rec no 7 (OS Card Reference). SKE44726.