Students from the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies are taking part in the excavation of a Bronze Age round barrow in Broadstairs in partnership with Trust for Thanet Archaeology.
The site was first investigated in the nineteenth century. In 1846, Anglo-Saxon burials and Roman finds had been made when a deep railway cutting was excavated through the open chalk downland at a place called Ozengall Down, or Osendun. Three men, William Henry Rolfe, Charles Roach-Smith and Thomas Wright, undertook an archaeological investigation.
Now the site overlooking Pegwell Bay is being used as part of a training excavation led by the Trust for Thanet Archaeology, with students from the SECL. The project’s aim is to look again at we think we know about the settlement on the site. The results of older excavations need to be checked with modern methods and the knowledge we have already gained reviewed and revised while it is still possible to access the site.
For more details, please see the page here: http://thanetarch.co.uk/journal/?cat=16