Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-tn8tq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-24T23:02:03.106Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Quern Production at Folkestone, South-East Kent: An Interim Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

P.T. Keller
P.T. Keller
Affiliation:
84, Markland Road, Elmsvale, Dover
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Since 1974, over 100 greensand querns of a type common in late Iron Age and early Romano-British contexts have been collected by five different people from the foreshore at East Wear Bay, situated on the east side of the Channel port of Folkestone, on the coast of south-east Kent (FIGS, ia and ib). The majority of these has been recovered by local enthusiast, Mr M. Dugdale, who reported his findings to the writer. This article is intended as an interim statement to place on record these findings and seeks to show that a major quern-production site was situated hereabouts, which was active during the late Iron Age and early Roman periods.

Type
Articles
Information
Britannia , Volume 20 , November 1989 , pp. 193 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © P.T. Keller 1989. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 S.E. Winbolt, Roman Folkestone (1925).

2 Keller, P.T., Rescue Excavations in Folkestone from 1973, Kent Arch. Review No. 69 (1982), 209–11.Google Scholar

3 Smart, J.G.O., Bisson, G. and Worssam, B.C., Geology of the Country around Canterbury and Folkestone, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (HMSO, 1966), 54Google Scholar , 56, 88–97 and fig. 1.

4 Curwen, C.E., Antiquity xi (1937), 141.Google Scholar

5 Curwen, C.E., Antiquity xv (1941), 17.Google Scholar

6 J. Foster in I.M. Stead and V. Rigby, Baldock: The Excavation of a Roman and Pre-Roman Settlement, Britannia Monograph No. 7 (1987), fig. 78 nos. 793–4.

7 Winbolt, op. cit. (note 1), 108.

8 This was found in the North Corridor of Block B. Winbolt, op. cit. (note 1), 25.

9 Winbolt, op. cit. (note 1), 108.

10 Miss C. Ingle, pers. comm.

11 Winbolt, op. cit. (note 1), 25; ibid. 108.

12 Penn, W.S., A Quern Survey in Kent, Kent Arch. Review No. 3 (1966), 46–8.Google Scholar Penn's untimely death in 1968, prevented the completion of this important work. Undoubtedly, through this work, Penn himself may have realised that a quern-production site was located at Folkestone during the Iron Age and early Roman period.

13 Curwen, op. cit. (note 4), 133.

14 Keller, op. cit. (note 2).

15 Two were recovered from these deposits and another two were found lying on the beach.

16 Curwen, op. cit. (note 4).

17 Greenfield, E., Arch. Cant. lxxiv (1960), 66–7Google Scholar , fig. 3.

18 MacPherson-Grant, N. in Parfitt, K., Some Iron Age Sites in the Deal Area, Kent Arch. Review No. 79 (1985), 213Google Scholar , fig. 5.

19 Miss C. Ingle, pers. comm.

20 Black, E.W., The Roman Villas of S.E. England, BAR Brit. Ser. 171 (1987), 63.Google Scholar