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HER Number: | MWX43226 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
Name: | Enclosure, Monkton Marshes |
An enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs. A ditch demarks three sides of a rectilinear enclosure with the fourth side formed by a field ditch belonging to the current field layout. The enclosure appears to be integrated with the field layout shown on historic mapping and probably represents a previously unrecorded element of this system. It is likely to be of medieval or post-medieval date.
Grid Reference: | TR 27369 63773 |
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Map Sheet: | TR26SE |
Parish: | MONKTON, THANET, KENT |
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An enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. A ditch demarks three sides of a rectilinear enclosure with the fourth, north-western, side formed by a field ditch belonging to the current field layout. The enclosure measures 40m (SW-NE) x 20m (NW-SE). The ditched elements of the enclosure appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark [2]. The field ditch forming the fourth side also appears to have been removed and is shown as infilled and part of the ploughed field on recent aerial photography [3].
The enclosure appears to be integrated with the field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping and probably represents a previously unrecorded element of this system [4]. This field system is likely to be of medieval or post-medieval date and derive from land reclaimed from the Wantsum Channel.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [5].
<3> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<4> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.
<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<5> 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.
Cross-ref. | Source description |
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<3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
<4> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. |
<5> | 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. |
<5> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
<5> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |