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Fawkham and Ash Archaeological Group
(FAAG)
The discovery
and excavation of a Late Iron-Age and Early Roman Farmstead at
Viewpoint, Wellfield, Hartley, Kent 1975/76 and 1984
TQ6084/6842
Layer / Context
Listing
VP 1. Topsoil and some clay subsoil forming spoil heap at the east end
of the site, near the corner of the wood. Find spot of 1st Century
flagon by Brian Tremain.
VP 2. Black soil with chalk specks and flints. Top of Ditch A in face of
terrace south of road.
VP 3. Black soil with chalk specks and flints. Top 20 cm of Ditch A. 1m back
from face of road terrace.
VP 4. Black soil with chalk specks and flints. Top 10 – 15 cm of top fill
of Ditch A. 1m cut through ditch ? m from kerb edge.
VP 5. Light brown loam with chalk specks and flints. Approx. 20cm lower fill
of Ditch A.
VP 6. Black soil with chalk specks and flints. Top 15 cm of fill of Ditch A.
1m cut through ditch ?m from kerb edge.
VP 7. Black soil, forming spoil from machining of top of Ditch A adjacent
VP4 and VP6.
VP 8. Light brown loam, mostly small chalk lumps, fill of lower portion of
Ditch B, ( top cut through by Ditch A ).
Section1
Tony C.
VP 9. Light brown loam with many chalk specks, some flints. Lower fill Ditch
A. Under VP6.
Brian T.
VP 10. Black loam with chalk specks, some flints. Top fill of Ditch A,? m
from kerb edge 1m cut through
ditch.
Charlie C. and Graham B.
VP 11. Black loam with chalk specks, some flints. Top fill of Ditch A, ?m
cut through ditch
John and Mark M. & Alan R.
VP 12. Light brown loam with chalk specks, some flints, Lower fill of Ditch
A. Below VP10. 1m cut.
Charlie C.
VP 13. Light brown loam with chalk specks, some flints. Lower fill of Ditch
B. Below VP9.
Brian T.
VP 14. 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.
VP 15. 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. Approx
?m east of ? of ? Tim Goss
VP16. Brown loam and chalk lumps, some flints, bottom portion of Ditch C
just west of junction with Ditch D. 1 rim and some
bone.
Graham Budd and Michael Davies
VP 17. Light brown loam, with chalk specks, some flints. Lower fill of Ditch
A. Below VP11. 7 to 8 ½ m from
kerb.
John and Mark M.
VP 18. Light brown loam, mostly chalk lumps, fill of lower portion of Ditch
A or B? .Below VP17.
John and Mark M.
VP 19. Light brown loam, mostly chalk lumps, fill of flat U shaped
Ditch E?. Some pottery. In face of service trench just west of corner of
road.
Graham B.
VP 20. Unstratified from top of Ditch A. 13m to 20½m from kerb following
initial clearing after machining by JCB.
VP 21. Black loam and chalk specks, upper fill of Ditch A. 13m½ to 15m from
kerb.
John C. and Charlie C.
VP 22. Brown clay/ loam upper fill of Ditch A with mass of Roman tile in
centre of ditch. Possible pit at 15½m to 17m from
kerb.
Ben M. and Albert S.
VP 23. Black loam and chalk specks, upper fill of Ditch A. 17½m to 19m from
kerb.
Leslie K. and Ian P.
VP 24. Unstrat. From upper fill of Ditch C during initial clearance and
exposure after machining by JCB. John and Mark M. Dan and Elvin J.
VP 25. Brown clay, (red daub and burnt clay) with mass of broken Roman
tiles, fragments of stone (quern?) forming possible hearth on at least two
tegula upside
down.
Roger C. and Charlie C.
VP 26. Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints. Upper fill of
Ditch C at 1m to 2½ m from SW face of
excavation.
Albert S.
VP 27. Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints. Upper fill of
Ditch C at 3m to 4½m.
John Clark
VP 28. Dark brown loam and chalk specks and large flints. Upper fill of
Ditch C at 5m to 6½ m.
Graham Budd
VP 29. Dark brown loam, chalk specks and large flints. Upper fill of Ditch C
at 13½m to14 ½m.
John and Mark Manley
VP 30. Black loam and many flints, upper fill of Ditch C at 7m to 9m.
John & Mark Manley
VP 31. Brown loam, lot of chalk and flints middle fill of Ditch C at 7m to
9m. John
VP32. Black loam and lots of flint, upper fill of ditch C at 10m to
11½m. Alan
Rush
VP33. Very dry crumbly dark brown/black loam under clay of hearth Ditch A/B
at 16½ to 18 m.
Charlie Capes
VP34. Brown clay and flints covering fill of Ditch B at 19½ to 21m.
VP35. Brown clay and flints fill of Ditch C, under VP26 at 2½ to 3m in
baulk.
Albert Smith
VP36. Brown clay, flints and chalk specks, lower fill of Ditch C at 13½ to
14½m under VP29.
David Phillips and Sue C.
VP37. Brown clay and mostly chalk lumps and flint, lower fill of Ditch B
under VP34 19½ to 21½m.
Steve M. and Chris B.
VP38. Brown clay and chalk lumps, lower fill of Ditch B under VP21 at
13½ to 15m.
Graham Budd
VP39. Lower pocket? Of very dry dark loam at bottom of fill of ditch/pit
at end of Ditch A at 16½ to 18m. See Section no.
4.
Brian T. and Ted Conway
VP40. Lower fill of Ditch C. Brown clay and chalk lumps under VP32 at 10 to
11½m
John M. and Alan Rush
VP41. Very dry, crumbly dark brown/black loam sealed by hearth (VP25) in
Ditch A at 16½ to 18m. Same as
VP33.
Charlie C. and Ted Conway
VP42. Complete tegula fragmented by heat from NE of hearth Ditch
A/B. Charlie C.
VP43. Fragments of tile from SW of hearth. Ditch
A/B.
Charlie C.
VP44. Fragments of tile from north side of
hearth?
Charlie C.
VP45. Dark brown loam, small chalk lumps, small broken flint, forming upper
fill of Ditch A/B, half section through the hearth at 15 to 16½m taking all
north of centre of ditch A out. Charlie C.
VP46. Dark brown loam, chalk lumps, fill of Ditch G in west face of
excavation of area for Block 9 (Fri 9.1.76)
VP47. Brown clay, upper fill of Ditch C at 15½ to 16½m. north along Ditch
C.
Barbara and Susan, Trevor and Stephen
VP48. Brown clay, fill of Ditch C at 14½ to 15½m. Bronze
tweezers. David York
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.
Edwards family and Don and Sara
VP51. Black loam, upper fill of bee-hive shaped pit (H) to east of Block 9,
cut by service trench.
John, Graham, David, Don and Sara
VP52. Brown clay and chalk lumps, fill of Ditch J cut by service trench to
the south of Block 9.
Paul Rick
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.
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Excavations on 22nd July 1984 by Roger Cockett
VP60. Upper filling of ditch in Box A. Light brown loam with
occasional chalk lumps and specks. Finds – pottery, bone, pot-boiler, shell.
VP61. Upper filling of ditch in Box B. Rich brown loam with occasional chalk
lumps. Finds – pottery, shell.
VP62. Upper filling of ditch in Box C. Brown loam and chalk lumps. Finds –
pottery, bone, shell.
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. Finds – large number of
pottery sherds, bone, shell, iron.
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