The discovery
and excavation of a Late Iron-Age and Early Roman Farmstead at
Viewpoint, Wellfield, Hartley, Kent 1975/76 and 1984
TQ6084/6842
Ditches A
and B, and Pit K
Plan of 1984 excavations
VP60. Upper filling of ditch in Box A.
Light brown
loam with occasional chalk lumps and specks.
Finds – pottery, bone, pot-boiler, shell.
No finds in this layer.
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VP61. Upper filling of ditch in Box B. Rich brown
loam with occasional chalk lumps.
No. of sherds 45, weight 2,196 gm.
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VP62. Upper filling of ditch in Box C. Brown loam
and chalk lumps.
No. of sherds 33, weight 650 gm.
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VP63. Upper filling of ditch in Box D.
Brown
loam with numerous chalk lumps.
No. of sherds 8, weight 30 gm.
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VP64. Upper filling of approximately circular Pit K.
A series of intersecting brown clays and fine
powdery soils.
No. of sherds 132, weight 1,690 gm.
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Excavating Ditches and Pit in glorious sunshine cut by
foundation trenches
View looking west of excavations
Box A by far fence. Ditch A looking west.
Box A by far fence. Ditch A looking west.
Box A by far fence. Ditch A looking east.
Box A by far fence. Ditch A looking east.
Box C. Ditches A and B looking west.
Box C. Ditches A and B looking west.
Box D. Ditches A and B looking west.
Box D. Ditches A and B looking west.
Box E. Pit K cut by foundations.
Box E. Pit K cut by foundations.
General view showing line of Ditches A and B running towards
fence.
General view showing line of Ditches A and B running towards
fence.