ALLEN’S FARM, PLAXTOL, Kent: Archaeomagnetic Dating Report 2002
Author(s): Paul Linford
Earth resistance survey has relocated the remains of a Roman bath house first discovered in the mid-C19th but subsequently lost. At the time of the C19th excavation a piece of inscribed tile was found bearing the name of its manufacturer, one Cabriabanus. Since the rediscovery of the site, more tile of the same type has been found, as has the base of a Roman tile furnace thought to be associated with its production. Archaeomagnetic analysis of the furnace thus provides an opportunity to date the activities of Cabriabanus, and the type of relief patterned tile associated with him. The samples taken from the furnace indicate that its northern end had not experienced particularly intense heating. However, those samples taken from its centre provide a precise date for its last firing, in the mid-C2nd AD.
- Report Number:
- 107/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 18
- Keywords:
- Archaeomagnetism
