Source/Archive record (Unpublished document) SKE29663 - Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: A mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period with evidence for long-distance maritime mobility

Title Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: A mortuary and ritual site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon period with evidence for long-distance maritime mobility
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2010

Abstract/Summary

Evaluation and excavation in area of land c. 1.2 ha, designated for housing. 500 features and 1000 contexts were recorded: a few finds of residual Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic finds, the earliest datable features were six Beaker Period/Early Bronze Age barrows. There are a number of 11th century BC enclosures and other features. A mortuary feature spans the period between the 10th and 3rd/4th centuries BC and had preserved bone. A group of ditches and pits belong to the Late Iron Age and there was a early Roman ditch. There appears to be no other occupation until the Early Anglo-Saxon period when a cemetery was established. Of the same period were 74 pits containing large quantities of marine shell.

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Description

Unpublished document 2 volumes

Location

Kent County Council Heritage 2014/336

Referenced Monuments (1)

  • Possible neolithic pit, neolithic pottery and mesolithic and neolithic flints at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate. (Monument)

Referenced Events (15)

  • EKE13915 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004
  • EKE23061 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 10
  • EKE23062 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 11
  • EKE23063 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 12
  • EKE23064 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 16
  • EKE23065 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 17
  • EKE23066 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 19
  • EKE23053 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 2
  • EKE23054 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 3
  • EKE23055 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 4
  • EKE23056 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 5
  • EKE23057 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 6
  • EKE23058 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 7
  • EKE23059 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 8
  • EKE23060 Archaeological evaluation at Cliffs End Farm, Thanet, 2004 - Trench 9

Record last edited

Feb 18 2015 1:08PM