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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 95 NE 7 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of a suspected Roman burial mound, Champion Court, Newnham |
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Summary
A suspected burial mound was formerly located in the orchard at the back of Champion Court, Newnham. It was investigated in 1825 and was found to contain small pieces of iron and broken pieces of Roman(?) pottery. There is no longer any trace of this mound.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 954 579 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ95NE |
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| Parish: | NEWNHAM, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BARROW? (Early Bronze Age to Roman - 2350 BC? to 409 AD?)
Associated Finds
Full description
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[TQ 955580] In the orchard at the back of Champion Court, Newnham, about 100 yards north of the windmill site, [see TQ 95 NE 6] a tumulus, opened by F A Crow in 1825, contained small pieces of iron and broken pieces of Roman (?) pottery. (1) Nothing remains of this feature which was sited upon the top of a hill. (2)
<1> G Bedo (OS Card Reference). SKE43447.
<2> Coll Cant 1893 167 (G Payne) (OS Card Reference). SKE39136.
<3> F1 ASP 26-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42307.
<4> Field report for monument TQ 95 NE 7 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4801.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: G Bedo. |
| <2>XY | OS Card Reference: Coll Cant 1893 167 (G Payne). [Mapped feature: #34173 burial, ] |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 26-JUL-63. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 95 NE 7 - July, 1963. |
