Archaeology
The Bronze Age Mount
The Bronze Age Mount
Their memory lives on.
There is clear evidence of a Bronze Age bowl-barrow, now obscured by vegetation, high on Otford Mount. This 7 metre diameter chalk barrow, now much eroded, was likely created by our earliest ancestors between 2,500-1,000BC during the central Bronze Age. In 1970, a cinerary urn (made for holding people’s ashes) was discovered, a metre underground, further down the Mount, behind a home in Greenhill Road. The British Museum identified the urn as being made c1,400-1000BC.
Bronze Age Broach represented on Mosaic
Bronze Age smelting and casting
A massive task to create by hand
Pointed stick and horn were used in its decoration
The potter’s finger-marks still visible within
Coombe Burial Jar from Mosaic
The Bowl Barrow burial mound is circled in white
Pre-Roman gold stater found at nearby Chiddingstone. See the horse?
Typical Bronze Age village
Simmilar Bowl Barrow to Otford Mount
The Coombe burial jar
The Bronze Age Mount
Their memory lives on
The Bronze Age Mount
Iron-Age Hill Fort
A great hill-fort overlooking the valley
Iron-Age Hill Fort
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The Romano British Cemetery
The Roman way of death
The Romano British Cemetery
Progress Villa
Unearthing a Roman farm
Progress Villa
The Pottery Field
Discvery of local industry
The Pottery Field
The Palace & Becket's Well
A palace and a holy well
The Palace & Becket's Well
Church Field Villa
One of the earliest British centres of Christian worship
Church Field Villa
The Bronze Age Mount
Their memory lives on
The Bronze Age Mount
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The Romano British Cemetery
The Roman way of death
The Romano British Cemetry
Progress Villa
Unearthing a Roman farm
Progress Villa
Pottery Field
Discvery of local industry
Pottery Field
The Palace & Becket's Well
A palace and a holy well
The Palace & Becket's Well
Church Field Villa
One of the earliest British centres of Christian worship
Church Field Villa
