Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

Background to the Gazetteer | Table of Contents

Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Halling 1, Pring's Quarry, Rochester-upon-Medway

Site number 886

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4102 4104 4105 4111 4112 4124 4128 4141 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A double ring ditch 12m overall diameter, with near the centre an assumed primary crouched interment of an adult oriented ESE. In the south west part of the outer ditch cut into the side was a flexed interment of a female c19 oriented NW, arms across the chest and legs gathered up. After placing a small pile of flint nodules over the pelvis, the burial was marked by a post at the feet. This burial had taken place before the ditch had silted up. The two stratified flint tools from the outer ditch fill were of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age type.

Remains/Period Y4

County Kent

Region SE

National grid square TQ

X coordinate 697

Y coordinate 665

Bibliographic source Cruse 1985, Grinsell 1992

Query

Site name	Halling 1, Pring's Quarry, Rochester-upon-Medway
Site number	886
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4093 4098 4102 4104 4105 4111 4112 4124 4128 4141 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A double ring ditch 12m overall diameter, with near the centre an assumed primary crouched interment of an adult oriented ESE. In the south west part of the outer ditch cut into the side was a flexed interment of a female c19 oriented NW, arms across the chest and legs gathered up. After placing a small pile of flint nodules over the pelvis, the burial was marked by a post at the feet. This burial had taken place before the ditch had silted up. The two stratified flint tools from the outer ditch fill were of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age type.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Kent
Region	SE
National grid square	TQ
X coordinate	697
Y coordinate	665
Bibliographic source	Cruse 1985, Grinsell 1992