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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 25 NW 444 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | A cropmark of a curving ditch, possibly a ring ditch |
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Summary
A cropmark of a curving ditch, possibly a ring ditch
| Grid Reference: | TR 2161 5857 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR25NW |
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| Parish: | WICKHAMBREAUX, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: A linear Bronze Age barrow cemetery, 150m west of Wickham Mill, Wickhambreaux |
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Full description
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A faint cropmark trace of a curving ditch centred at TR 2161 5857, forming an arc 13m across. This may be part of a ring ditch.
This ditch is part of a collection of probable Bronze Age barrows forming a linear cemetery running NE-SW alongside the Little Stour. It is possible that the barrow cemetery extends further to the north-east beneath Wickhambreaux village and south-west into adjacent fields. However the area to the south-west is cultivated with orchards and so traces of buried features are unidentifiable from aerial photography as with the village. As this site has been ploughed for a number of centuries all features appear to have been levelled. It is likely that very little of the barrow structures survive, though on the southern edge of the alignment deeper soil which appears to obscure parts of some of the ring ditches may have helped to preserve more of the buried remains. (1)
<1> English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document). SKE16345.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey. |
