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Site name Snodland 1, Holborough
Site number 946
Burial codes 4001 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4048 4051 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch possibly the remains of a round barrow, respected by an adjacent Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The ditch contained secondary Neolithic sherds in the lowest layers (Ebbsfleet, Peterborough), followed by Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sherds in the upper. No primary burial was found, but in the south west side of the ditch there was a secondary inhumation.

A quarry had destroyed the southern one third of the site.
Remains/Period Y4
County Kent
Region SE
National grid square TQ
X coordinate 696
Y coordinate 625
Bibliographic source Evison 1956


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