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Digging at the Gateway from prehistory to Caesar and beyond. The archaeology of the East Kent Access Road, Thanet.
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For thousands of years East Kent has been a gateway for new peoples, new cultures, new ideas and for trade. Kent County Council’s (KCC) construction of a new road link, the second phase of the East Kent Access (EKA2), on the south side of the Isle of Thanet provided a rare opportunity to undertake large-scale investigations of this important archaeological landscape.
The Oxford Wessex Archaeology (OWA) joint venture, at times involving over 150 archaeologists, undertook a series of excavations, covering 48 hectares, along the 6.5-kilometre route. These revealed a wealth of archaeological evidence spanning the Palaeolithic to the Second World War.
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Anglo-Saxon Artefacts, Anglo-Saxon Funerary Site, Bronze Age Agriculture, Bronze Age Artefacts, Bronze Age Ceremony, Bronze Age Funerary Site, Bronze Age Settlement, Early Medieval Artefacts, Early Medieval Funerary Site, Early Medieval Settlement, Iron Age Agriculture, Iron Age Artefacts, Iron Age Funerary Site, Iron Age Settlement, Medieval Agriculture, Medieval Settlement, Mesolithic, Neolithic Artefacts, Neolithic Ceremony, Neolithic Funerary Site, Roman Military Site, Romano-British Artefacts, Romano-British Defences, Romano-British Funerary Site, Romano-British Settlement, World War II
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Published: 2017-01-01 13:37
Last Updated: 2026-01-19 13:37
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0
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England