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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 25 NW 445 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | A cropmark trace of a curvilinear patch |
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Summary
A cropmark trace of a curvilinear patch.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2162 5859 |
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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 very faint cropmark trace of a pale curvilinear patch centred at TR 2162 5859 and approximately 14.5m in diameter. This cropmark could only be seen on the most recent aerial photographs taken in 2001.
This cropmark seems to be 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 English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009.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. |
