Archaeological Discoveries along the Farningham to Hadlow Gas Pipeline, Kent This report has been downloaded from www.kentarchaeology.org.uk the website of the Kent Archaeological Society (Registered Charity 223382), Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, St Faith's St, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH, England. The copyright owner has placed the report on the site for download for personal or academic use. Any other use must be cleared with the copyright owner. Route of pipeline with sites marked – page 100 Main sites:- Mesolithic – South of New Ash Green (MT01) – page 5 Late Iron Age/early Romano-British - East of Ightham Court (Plot 12/08) – page 28 Romano-British – South of New Ash Green (MT01, Plots 4/01–3) – page 42 Roman Villa, Fairlawne Park, Plaxtol (Plots 16/01 and 17/02) – page 72 Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Pilgrim’s Way (MT02, Plot 8/03) – page 94 May 2015 Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury SP4 6EB tel: 01722 326867 fax: 01722 337562 email:
[email protected] www.wessexarch.co.uk Archaeological Discoveries along the Farningham to Hadlow Gas Pipeline, Kent by Andrew B. Powell with contributions from Phil Andrews, Catherine Barnett, Kayt Marter Brown, Nicholas Cooke, Jessica M. Grimm, Phil Harding, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Lorraine Mepham and Chris J. Stevens and illustrations by Rob Goller and S.E. James Introduction Middle–Late Bronze Age cremation burials, Late Iron Age and Romano-British enclosures, a probable Romano-British villa, and an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery were among the discoveries made during mitigation works (targeted strip-map-and-record excavation and watching brief) undertaken in 2008–9 prior to the laying of the Farningham to Hadlow Natural Gas Pipeline, in Kent (Wessex Archaeology 2011a) (Fig.