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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kingsborough 1 Alternative Name: Kingsborough 2Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.777 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Kent Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Isle of Sheppey Nearest Village: Minster
Map Ref: TQ975723
Latitude: 51.415307N Longitude: 0.838823E
Condition:
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Two Neolithic causewayed enclosures, a Late Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement complex, and Romano-British, Saxon,and medieval field systems investigatied in advance of housing development at Kingsborough Manor.
Developer-funded archaeology on the Isle of Sheppey resulted in the discovery of not one but two Neolithic causewayed enclosures on the same hilltop in very close (c. 300 m) proximity. In the later Bronze Age enclosures and cremation cemeteries were constructed immediately to the east, followed by Iron Age enclosures and, ultimately, field systems dating to the later Iron Age onwards.
A radiocarbon programme enabled the chronological sequence and hiatus between all of these events to be discerned. The two Neolithic causewayed enclosures were of different forms and, although on the same hilltop, they each seem to have had distinctly different viewsheds over the Thames and the Swale respectively.
There are subtle, but potentially significant, differences in the material culture and deposition which allow exploration of the possible functions and role(s) of the two largely contemporaneous sites. Questions may be addressed such as whether they performed the same functions for two communities or had separate and distinct roles for a single community.
The Bronze Age enclosures, though agricultural in function, clearly seem to respect their Neolithic predecessors invoking a remembrance of space, which is lost by the Iron Age. The shift away from the special function of this landscape in the Neolithic to a subsequent agricultural use is explored, as is thehiatus in use and subsequent re-use of the area.
Full paper: Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures and Later Prehistoric Farming: Duality, Imposition and the Role of Predecessors at Kingsborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK by MICHAEL J. ALLEN, MATT LEIVERS and CHRIS ELLIS, with major contributions by SIMON STEVENS and SUSAN CLELLAND and contributions by ALEX BAYLISS, CHRIS BUTLER, ROWENA GALE, ALEX GIBSON, JACQUELINE I. McKINLEY, STEPHANIE KNIGHT, LORRAINE MEPHAM, ROBERT SCAIFE and CHRIS J. STEVENS
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