The discovery
and excavation of a Late Iron-Age and Early Roman Farmstead at
Viewpoint, Wellfield, Hartley, Kent 1975/76 and 1984
TQ6084/6842
Photographs of
Pottery in Context Number order
VP01 Initial Discovery
& unstratified pottery
VP02 Top of Ditch A in face of terrace south of road.
VP03 Top 20 cm of Ditch A. 1m back from face of road terrace.
VP04 Black soil with chalk specks and flints.
Top 10-15 cm of top fill of Ditch A. 1m cut.
VP05 Light brown loam with chalk specks and
flints. Approx. 20cm lower fill of Ditch A.
VP06 Black soil with chalk specks and flints.
Top 15 cm of fill of Ditch A. 1m cut through ditch.
VP07 Black soil, forming spoil from machining
of top of Ditch A adjacent VP4 and VP6.
VP08 Light brown loam, mostly small chalk
lumps, fill of lower portion of Ditch B.
VP09 Light brown loam with many chalk specks,
some flints. Lower fill Ditch A.
VP10 Black loam with chalk specks, some
flints. Top fill of Ditch A.
VP11 Black loam with chalk specks, some
flints. Top fill of Ditch A
VP12 Light brown loam with chalk specks, some
flints, Lower fill of Ditch A.
VP13 Light brown loam with chalk specks,
some flints. Lower fill of Ditch B.
VP14 Light brown loam, mostly chalk
lumps fill of lower portion of Ditch B, Some sherds of pottery,
pocket of soil in ditch fill near top. Below VP12.
VP15 Dark brown loam, lots of chalk
lumps. Carbon, burnt flints and daub. 1m cut through bottom
portion of Ditch C. Between terrace face and kerb.
VP16 Brown loam and chalk lumps, some
flints, bottom portion of Ditch C.
VP17 Light brown loam, with chalk
specks, some flints. Lower fill of Ditch A.
VP18 Light brown loam, mostly chalk
lumps, fill of lower portion of Ditch A or B?
VP19 Light brown loam, mostly chalk
lumps, fill of flat U shaped Ditch E
VP20 Unstratified from top of Ditch A. Following
initial clearing after machining by JCB.
VP21 Black loam and chalk specks, upper fill of Ditch A.
13m½ to 15m from kerb.
VP22 Brown clay/ loam upper fill of Ditch A with mass of
Roman tile in centre of ditch.
VP23 Black loam and chalk specks, upper fill of Ditch A.
VP24 Unstratified, from upper fill of Ditch C during
initial clearance and exposure
VP25 Brown clay, (red daub and burnt clay) with mass of
broken Roman tiles.
VP26 Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints.
Upper fill of Ditch C
VP27 Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints.
Upper fill of Ditch C
VP28 Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints.
Upper fill of Ditch C
VP29 Dark brown loam, chalk specks and large flints. Upper
fill of Ditch C
VP30 Black loam and many flints, upper fill of Ditch C
VP31 Brown loam, lot of chalk and flints middle fill of
Ditch C
VP32 Black loam and lots of flint, upper fill of ditch C
VP33 Very dry crumbly dark brown/black loam under clay of
hearth Ditch A/B
VP34 Brown clay and flints covering fill of Ditch B
VP35 Brown clay and flints fill of Ditch C, under VP26
VP36 Brown clay, flints and chalk specks, lower fill of
Ditch C
VP37 Brown clay and mostly chalk lumps and flint, lower
fill of Ditch B under VP34
VP38 Brown clay and chalk lumps, lower fill of Ditch B
under VP21
VP39 Lower pocket? Of very dry dark loam at bottom of fill
of ditch/pit at end of Ditch A
VP40 Lower fill of Ditch C. Brown clay and chalk lumps
under VP32
VP41 Very dry, crumbly dark brown/black loam sealed by
hearth (VP25) in Ditch A
VP42 Complete tegula fragmented by heat from NE of hearth Ditch
A/B
VP43 Fragments of tile from SW of hearth. Ditch A/B
VP44 Fragments of tile from north side of hearth? - NO POTTERY
VP45 Dark brown loam, small chalk lumps, small broken flint,
forming upper fill of Ditch A/B.
VP46 Dark brown loam, chalk lumps, fill of Ditch G in
west face of excavation of area for Block 9
VP47 Brown clay, upper fill of Ditch C at 15½ to 16½m.
north along Ditch C.
VP48 Brown clay, fill of Ditch C at 14½ to 15½m. Bronze
tweezers.
VP49 Brown clay fill of Ditch C at 16½ to 20m. various
VP50 Brown clay and chalk lumps, fill of Ditch J to north
of Block 9 in service trenches.
VP51 Black loam, upper fill of bee-hive shaped pit (H) to
east of Block 9, cut by service trench
VP52 Brown clay and chalk lumps, fill of
Ditch J cut by service trench to the south of Block 9.
VP53 Brown loam, many chalk specks and lumps.
Pit H below VP51.
VP54 Black ash and burnt clay/daub, below
VP53. Pit H.
VP55 Brown clay and light chalk rubble, below
VP54. Pit H
VP60 Upper filling of
ditch in Box A. Light brown loam with occasional chalk lumps and specks.
Finds in site note books – pottery, bone, pot-boiler, shell - but NO
POTTERY marked VP60 ???
VP61 Upper filling of ditch in Box B. Rich brown loam with
occasional chalk lumps
VP62 Upper filling of ditch in Box C. Brown loam and chalk lumps
VP63 Upper filling of ditch in Box D. Brown loam with numerous chalk
lumps. Finds – pottery.
This layer includes a later secondary ditch on south face.
VP64 Upper filling of approximately circular pit E. A series of
intersecting brown clays and fine
powdery soils.