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Monument details
HER Number: | MWX43345 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Enclosure, Ash Levels |
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Summary
A small rectilinear enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s aerial photographs. The enclosure measures 20m (NE-SW) x 10m (NW-SE) and is defined by a bank flanked by an internal ditch. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date. The features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks.
Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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Map Sheet: | TR36SW |
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Parish: | ASH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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A small rectilinear enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The enclosure measures 20m (NE-SW) x 10m (NW-SE) and is defined by a bank flanked by an internal ditch. The bank is c.3m in diameter and the ditch c.2m; no gap in either is visible. The function of the enclosure is unclear but it is likely to be agricultural in origin and medieval or post-medieval in date. The features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks [2].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <3> | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping. |
<3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
<3> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |