Roman burial site found in garden at Broadstairs

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A wonderful find in the front garden of a Broadstairs home.

““I excavated out the flagon and next to that there was a broken pot and inside that there were bits of bones.”

Now Dave and wife Katie have received a report from the team which reveals the find was a Roman cremation burial dated 1st – 2nd Century A.D.  of most likely a woman aged between 20 and 35

There were  three ceramic vessels associated with the cremation – a small, imported beaker of the Roman period, a Romano-British flagon and a large Romano-British jar, which contained the cremated bone.

The report says: “The vessels, and subsequently the cremated remains, can be dated to late 1st to 2nd century AD. It is likely that all three pots originally had everyday domestic functions and were later chosen for burial with the deceased.

“The flagon is almost complete and its features – the fabric, colour, vessel shape and size – suggest it was made in one of the kilns of Roman Canterbury, Durovernum Cantiacorum.

The imported beaker had features which the team say shows it was made in the Rhineland and is a type relatively uncommon among East Kent finds.

If this beaker was from the Rhineland, it would support the belief that there was an extensive trade throughout the Roman Empire.

https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/03/09/roman-cremation-burial-site-uncovered-in-broadstairs-front-garden/

 

 

Edited March 12, 2022 by guy