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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 33 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bigberry Camp (also known as 'Bigbury'), Harbledown |
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Summary
An Iron Age hillfort and probable cattle compound at Bigbury Camp, Harbledown. During excavations in 1962-3 to the north of the supposed eastern entrance, evidence of a strong palisade in the bottom of a ditch was revealed. Small finds in the primary site of the ditch included several potsherds of East Kent Early Iron Age, "A" gritted ware, and an ovoid slingbolt of burnt clay precisely matched by one from a hill-fort in Belgium. In 1932-33 excavations also discovered a slave gang chain more than 18 ft in length and including several neck collars.
| Grid Reference: | TR 117 575 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | HARBLEDOWN AND ROUGH COMMON, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- BRIDLE BIT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- GOAD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- HARNESS RING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- PLOUGH (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
- SHERD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 1005169: Bigberry camp |
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Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. OS 6" 1962. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. OS Iron Age Britain Map 1962. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. Arch J 89 1933 87-115 (RF Jessup). |
| <4> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. Arch Cant 48 1936 151-68 (RF Jessup & NC Cook). |
| <5> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. AM Eng & Wales 1961 58 (MOW). |
| <6> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. F1 FGA 08.02.63. |
| <7> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. CS Canterbury 17.06.70. |
| <8> | Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index entry. BAR 62 British Hill-Forts: An Index 1979 231 (AHA Hogg). |
| <9> | Article in serial: Brent, J.. 1861. Roman cemeteries in Canterbury, with some conjectures concerning its earliest inhabitants. Arch Cant 4: 27-42. p33. |
| <10> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2012. Archaeological watching brief on fencing work at Bigbury Camp, Kent. |
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