Source/Archive record (Unpublished document) SKE31725 - St Radigund’s Abbey Farm, Hougham, nr Dover, 2015: Evaluation report

Title St Radigund’s Abbey Farm, Hougham, nr Dover, 2015: Evaluation report
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Date/Year 2015

Abstract/Summary

In May 2015, the Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) was engaged to undertake evaluation trenching in the area of the redundant Tyler Barn at St Radigunds Abbey, ahead of its conversion into holiday lets (NGR 62752 14184, centred). The investigation involved the excavation of two long, machine-cut trenches (Trenches 1 and 2) following proposed new drain runs, together with the digging of three trial pits (Test Pits 1–3) at points where new stanchion pits for an extension to the Tyler Barn are to be placed. The work in 2015 followed on from an earlier phase of evaluation work carried out immediately to the north in 2009. The present investigations revealed two features of archaeological interest – a broad shallow hollow of post-medieval date located to the south-west of the Tyler Barn (Trench 1; F. 4) and an area of post-medieval flint metalling to the east. This metalling had first been discovered in 2009, when a larger area was exposed. A small assemblage of struck flints recovered from the ploughsoil in Trench 1indicates prehistoric activity in the area and this is consistent with previous discoveries. Finds of later date were limited to a small amount of medieval and post-medieval ceramic building material.

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Unpublished document (UD)

Location

Kent County Council Heritage 2015/364

Referenced Monuments (3)

  • A post-medieval farmyard surface, St Radegund's Abbey (Monument)
  • Post-Medieval hollow, St Radigund's Farm, Hougham (Monument)
  • Scatter of struck flints, St Radigund's Abbey Farm, Hougham (Findspot)

Referenced Events (1)

  • EKE15445 St Radigund’s Abbey Farm, Hougham, nr Dover, Evaluation 2015 (Ref: SRAD-EV-15)

Record last edited

Oct 20 2016 1:12PM