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Prehistoric to medieval landscape and settlement at Kemsley,near Sittingbourne, Kent (Paperback)
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Prehistoric to medieval landscape and settlement at Kemsley,near Sittingbourne, Kent (Paperback)
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This volume examines the evolution of a rural landscape in north
Kent from the Late Mesolithic (c 7500 BC) to the 19th century, as
revealed by analysis of the results of excavation on a site
overlooking the marshes and tributaries of the River Medway, near
Sittingbourne. Particular emphasis is placed on the prehistoric
pottery assemblage and on understanding the site in terms of local
and regional developments. Slight evidence for Late Mesolithic and
Neolithic activity (residual finds only) was followed by the
creation of a field system. This was well established by the Late
Bronze Age, when pitting and refuse disposal suggests the presence
of a nearby settlement. There are inconclusive indications from
associated pottery that some field boundaries may have had Middle
Bronze Age origins and that some structured deposition was taking
place. A period of abandonment, possibly related to rising sea
levels, preceded the construction of a Middle Iron Age unenclosed
farmstead represented by four roundhouses constructed at some time
after c 300 BC and the re-establishment of a field system. The
local field boundaries were reorganised in the Late Iron Age, and
remained in use during the 1st century AD, but were abandoned
thereafter, with no archaeological evidence for subsequent land use
until a new farm was established in the 11th to mid 13th centuries.
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