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<< Text Pages >> Larkfield Cairnfield (Maidstone) - Cairn in England in Kent

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Larkfield Cairnfield (Maidstone)
Country: England County: Kent Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Maidstone
Map Ref: TQ70155891
Latitude: 51.303880N  Longitude: 0.439521E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Now destroyed Cairnfield in Kent

This Romano-British cremation cemetery, now underneath an orchard, is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 415484, an extract of which reads: "discovered while planting fruit trees (see plan) in 1892. The site on land belonging to William Wigan of Clare House, East Malling is on a small plateau above the River Medway, 350 yards to the south-west of Holy Trinity Church, New Hythe, and between the river and the road from New Hythe to Larkfield. It contained 13 graves of urns, some with burnt bones inside, arranged in no particular order. Four samian dishes, of Form 31, were stamped and had been buried with a flat tile covering them. A samian cup from 33, Upchurch ware and coarse pottery with iron hob nails were amongst the finds. Maidstone Museum has samian, Upchurch, coarse ware and nails from this site. In store in Maidstone Museum is some Romano British coarse pottery, mostly greyware, labelled 'Larkfield, 1892'. It includes beakers, flagons and ollae, dated 1st - 4th century AD."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for Larkfield, Maidstone, Kent, which includes a ground plan of the cremation cemetery and a brief archaeology & history. TNA add: "In recent years it seems that very little has been written about this seemingly lost site, long since destroyed by the self-righteous advance of the Industrialists.  It seems to have been an important place, as there were many cremated remains here in more than a dozen individual burial urns, some with flints deposited in them ... Much more was found hereby, with the majority of the finds being “a group of urns containing cremated interments found in the urn-pits.”  Although James (1898) described them as dating from the Romano-British period, from his description and illustrations it would seem that the remains here were probably of an earlier date, perhaps Iron- or even Bronze Age.  But we may never know for sure."

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