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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 25 NW 449 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | A linear ditch visible as a cropmark |
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Summary
A linear ditch visible as a cropmark.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2155 5839 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR25NW |
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| Parish: | WICKHAMBREAUX, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A length of linear ditch of uncertain date or origin visible as a cropmark. This cropmark is centred a TR 2155 5839 and visible through aerial photography.
This ditch could possibly be part of a collection of nearby 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 English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document).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
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey. |
