on the Upchurch Marshes, which began in the early first century AD, and declined after the Roman conquest, until its final demise around AD 70-80. The principal forms produced included bead-rim jars of Monaghan class 3E and facet-rimmed jars of class 3G, both of which are represented in BER16.1 at Bredgar (see for example Fig 10, nos. 1-3). BER16.1 would appear, on the basis of his published fabric description, to be very similar to Monaghan fabric F2/1 (Monaghan 1987, 251).
   Pollard has also discussed the production of flint-tempered wares on the Marshes. Its distribution appears to be highly localised, occurring no more than 15km away (Pollard 1988, 46). Similar forms and fabrics were recovered from first-century deposits at Wises Lane, Borden, which lies little more than 4km to the north of Bredgar (M. Lyne, in Hammond et al. 2003, 72-77).

Ditch F100, contexts [164, 165] Table 2; Fig. 8, nos. 4-18

In addition to small quantities of a range of ‘Belgic’ fabrics, this group yielded much larger amounts of post-conquest material. The principal coarseware fabric is wheel-thrown R73 (19.93 per cent by sherd count). Forms present in this ware are almost all closed, the rim-sherds representing mainly out-turned or flange-rim vessels (Fig. 8, nos. 16-17). Fragments of two lids were also identified. There is a complete absence of R14, which occurs widely in Kent from the Hadrianic period onwards (Pollard 1988, 88-90). The commonest fineware is R16 (38.85 per cent by sherd count, 29.76 per cent by weight). The most prominent forms present in this ware are beakers of cordoned or carinated type (Fig. 8, no. 13) and shallow dishes of Monaghan type 7A. There are also sherds from flaring ring-necked flagons of class1E1. These types date to the later first or early second century AD (Monaghan 1987). All of the other finewares, however, fabrics R20, 42, 81 and 87, are usually assigned a first-century date. Most of these first-century fineware sherds occur in the lower fill [165], but the significance of this is difficult to assess, given the small vessel quantities involved, and there are a number of vessel links between [164] and [165]. On balance the evidence would seem to suggest that very little, if any, of the assemblage need be any later than first century in date.