Time Team Excavation Site Smallhythe

United Kingdom / England / Tenterden /
 interesting place, historical layer / disappeared object
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You wouldn’t think that this ordinary looking field and this little drainage ditch had got much to do with England’s seafaring heritage. For a start, we're about ten miles from the sea at a place called Smallhythe in Kent.

But around the time of the battle of Agincourt in the early 1400’s, somewhere round here, there was a royal dockyard big enough to build thousand ton ships.

If that’s true then where are the docks now, and where’s there a river or an estuary big enough to launch those great wooden ships?

As usual, we got just three days to find out.
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Coordinates:   51°2'17"N   0°41'50"E
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