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tiompan Jul 4, 2007 10:56:24
Replying to slumpystones

slumpystones wrote:
Why do you consider it to be the oldest in the country ?
It was said to me when Addington was being repaired that the Medway barrows were now recognised as older than Wessex, and the newly-discovered causewayed enclosure on Sheppey is older than any other in this country.[/quote]

I was wondering what the justification was , RC dating etc . The Kentish causewayed enclosures suggest a possible early date to to their proximity to the continent but do we have any dating evidence ?.

M moss
moss Jul 4, 2007 13:52:21
Replying to tiompan

My James Dyer says (Southern Arch.Guide) 1973 that Addington has cultural affinities with western Europe rather than western Britain, being particularly like the langdysse or long dolmens of Scandinavia. But he goes on to say that the Chestnuts barrow shows that it had been used for a long time and had neolithic pottery some from Windmill Hill, this being found in front of the facade, indicating that these were gifts left by the mourners... Both Coldrum and Chestnuts are orientated east/west, Addington -north-east/south west. They appeared though because of the drift of sarsens in the area - therefore were they different people imitating the cotswold barrows of the south west?