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The Davington Mysteries: a Medieval Stone Wall with Two Community Archaeology Project Gateways in Mannerist Style KENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL ISSUE NUMBER 91 SOCIETY WINTER 2011 Your Quarterly Newsletter THE DAVINGTON MYSTERIESPage 2-3 INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2-3 Davington 4-5 Stockbury IA Furnaces 6-7 What’s On 8-9 You & Your Society + Committee Round Up 10-11 Notes from the Archive + New Book 12 New Community Arch 13 Letters to the Editor + Hasted Prize 14 Boxley Warren 15 Hadlow Tower 15 Thames Defence Research Group www.kentarchaeology.org.uk the Cricket Pitch suggested important features and although one of our twelve-hour trenches was disappointing (the curved concentric ditch and bank turned out to be a hedge clearance trench filled with building rubble), the other revealed a flint floored track way running across the pitch, bordered by a small V shaped ditch to the west. We returned to this feature in 2011 and will be reporting on our findings in spring 2012. At present we are seeing this as a late Iron Age/Romano-British track. The search for the ‘real’ Davington Manor was also successful. When Stephens Close was built in the early 1960s, rescue Aerial photograph of the Davington Plateau in 1962 archaeology was almost unknown, all seemingly swept away except for a 17th century brick and re-used The Davington Mysteries: a medieval stone wall with two community archaeology project gateways in Mannerist style. One of these gates has a plaque with the Dr Pat Reid, Community Archaeologist for the date 1624. Locally, this wall has Faversham Society, Director FSARG been seen as a kitchen garden wall, The Davington plateau lies just found on the side of Dark Hill, the a belief I have always found westwards of old Faversham, beyond cutting which goes through the implausible, and made even more the Westbrook. For many years plateau east to west. This was joined unlikely by the presence of an rumours have circulated about Late by many more sherds, some from unrecorded substantial medieval Iron Age pottery up on the plateau, ‘foraging’ and keyhole excavations stone wall and 13th century gateway and speculation about a hill fort. in the gardens of Stephens Close tucked away in Stephens Close, There had also been speculation and others from one-day trenches inside the area enclosed by the 17th about a medieval roadway and century wall. The metal detecting team possibly a small village in front of readying themselves for work Using the medieval wall as a Davington Priory (founded starting point, a number of small cAD1154). Confusion also scale excavations were carried out reigned over the exact location of and yielded demolition dumps, Davington Manor, demolished underground structures, clearance around AD1650 according to dumps, flint wall foundations and Hasted. For 2010, the Faversham courtyard/pebbled floor surfaces. Society Archaeological Research Not only had we found the site Group (FSARG) designed a one of the actual manor as featured in year research project to test these documents, but the demolition ideas. This brief report outlines the in Davington cricket field. Analysis material (decorative pantiles, glazed main findings: details are showed that some sherds were bricks, 17th century glazed floor on our website www.community- middle and even early Iron Age; tiles), suggested that the stone archaeology.org.uk. others were early Romano British medieval house had been Firstly, the Iron Age. On our (with a few tiny sherds of considerably refurbished in the late first day of field work in April 2010, Samian ware). Tudor-early Jacobean periods. In flint tempered ‘Belgic’ pottery was A major geo-resistivity survey of all, we identified at least 4 2 Autumn 2011 - KAS Newsletter - www.kentarchaeology.org.uk demolition/conversion phases for Foundations and a cobbled floor - this unfortunate mansion. The part of the original Davington Manor main one in the 1650s was only a generation or so after the refurbishment - perhaps provoked by the rapid growth of the gunpowder manufacturing right on their doorstep in the Westbrook valley? Finally for our project, we were given three days access to Davington Priory, now the private residence of Bob Geldof. Exhaustive geo resistivity and metal detecting surveys were carried out. The metal detecting team produced a lively collection of artefacts from the Davington Fetes held on the Paddock over the years but were disappointed to find no medieval. Aerial Photo library - please contact Heritage of KCC Conservation to view the collection. Apart from a possible circular dove We are, of course, always I need to congratulate are the cote near the house, the geo extremely grateful to Faversham FSARG team. The sheer hard work resistivity also failed to produce any folk for their support and interest and professionalism (and the sense clear cut evidence for medieval road - without this there would be little of fun) are hard to beat: I am a very or settlement. point in what we do. But after this lucky Director! What the resistivity survey did particular year, I think that the folk show, however, was a strongly marked collection of features in the north part of the Paddock - concentric circles and radiating ditches which are almost certainly prehistoric. Abundant evidence for prehistoric occupation on the Davington plateau was found in nearly all of the sites investigated. The finds were mostly Mesolithic and included a tranchet adze and many blades, but there were also finds from most other post-glacial periods. The prehistoric finds will contribute to an Arch. Cant. paper on the prehistory of the Westbrook valley. In October 2010 we held a one day conference which brought a happy end to a rewarding year. In April 2011, an exhibition at the Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre included highly successful hands-on Saturday sessions for families. All excavation reports are now on A selection of flint tools from the 2010 Davington excavations our website. www.kentarchaeology.org.uk - Autumn 2011 - KAS Newsletter 3 Partly excavated iron smelting furnaces situated around a central ore-roasting pit (beneath 1m scale) Late Iron Age iron smelting works found near Stockbury by Tim Allen much larger, and preserve the unexcavated better preserved remains in situ. and multiphase, Along with flint- and grog- consisted of tempered Late Iron Age pottery the five intercutting site produced nearly half a tonne of pits that iron slag and smaller amounts of together created ‘bloom’ (the spongy conglomeration a substantial of iron particles produced from the sunken-floored ore at about 1200°C within the structure furnace during firing). The bloom containing at would later be re-heated until red A half-sectioned ‘tapping’-type smelting furnace showing the adjacent least ten in-situ hot and hammered into the required hollow into which the molten slag iron was conducted (4 x 0.25m scale) and intact shape by a blacksmith. The relative furnaces of a inefficiency of the method meant previously that the large amount of iron uring archaeological unknown type and two iron-ore still present within the slag went monitoring of a now roasting pits. Potsherds found to waste. completed new water main within the remains dated the works The furnaces were clay-walled Dinstallation by South East Water to the Mid-to-Late Iron Age (c.150 structures of approximately 0.32m near Stockbury, northeast of to c. 50 BC). in height and 0.2m diameter at the Maidstone, archaeologists from Following discussions with South top, narrowing down to half or less Kent Archaeological Projects East Water, the County Heritage of that at the base, and looking like discovered the remains of two Conservation Group and English upside-down chimney pots. The ancient iron smelting works on the Heritage, it was decided that the walls were up to 40mm thick and Clay-with-Flint surface of the chalk remains were of national importance were scorched deep red on their uplands. One of the works consisted and that sufficient excavation and inside surface. Each furnace had a of two separate pits, each containing sampling had taken place to hole knocked out at the base, this two clay-built, funnel-like iron characterise them in detail. It was being where the bloom was removed smelting furnaces. The other, therefore decided to cease excavation after the firing (until their final 4 Winter 2011 - KAS Newsletter - www.kentarchaeology.org.uk Stockbury furnace Figure (Final) abandonment the access holes were in use into the post-medieval period. found when Sarah Paynter, the re-sealed with clay prior to the next In the ‘slag-pit’ type the molten slag English Heritage expert on this firing). The shallow roasting pits accumulated in the furnace base; in subject, discovered partly fired were used to heat the ore before it the ‘tapping’ type the molten slag pieces of ore amongst the piles of was packed into the furnace, along was conducted into a basin-like waste slag iron. The ore consisted with much charcoal, which was then hollow cut adjacent to the furnace of flint nodules surrounded by ignited. It is thought that air had to base. In one example on the site the metallic iron-rich accretions. Such be blown with great force into the solidified slag, still with a liquid nodules occur commonly within furnace to reach the required appearance, lay within the hollow the Clay-with-Flint surface geology temperature, but no air holes were as if frozen in time for over two of the area and enough evidence was observed in the Stockbury examples, thousand years (for further therefore available to identify the probably because they had been information on prehistoric iron Stockbury Industry as a separate situated at the front base of each smelting search online ‘Wealden and independent industry, and to furnace, which had been broken out Iron Research Group’ and ‘English provide the reason for its location to remove the bloom.
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