#grange farm

PCA discover extraordinary Roman mausoleum and so much more

Grange Farm in Kent is an interesting archaeological site near Watling Street, one of the main roads of Roman Britain. First inhabited by a farming community in the Late Iron Age (around 100BC), the property became a center for silver extraction “on an industrial scale” in the 4th century CE, and then the site of a two-storey stone mausoleum in which was found the lead-lined coffin of an elite woman. A water mill was constructed at some later point, and then the land passed into the possession of Bishop Odo of Bayeaux. Material evidence suggests the ruins of the mausoleum became a hallowed place for Anglo-Saxon immigrants and evocatively, upon eventual human abandonment, the abode of tawny owls. A manor was built on the site in the Middle Ages, of which some elements still stand.

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“Was an ancient clan illegally melting silver in Gillingham? And why was its mausoleum overtaken by owls?” https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/riverside-dig-site-reveals-stunning-ancient-mysteries-262304/