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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 SW 1093
Type of record:Monument
Name:Area of cropmarks indicating probable prehistoric settlement, Lee Green Cottages

Summary

Immediately west of Lee Green Cottages is a cropmark complex that includes two ring-ditches and a number of enclosures. The 2009-2012 English Heritage Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project interpreted these as possible neolithic / early bronze age features.


Grid Reference:TQ 7311 7245
Map Sheet:TQ77SW
Parish:HIGHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT

Monument Types

  • DITCH (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
  • ENCLOSURE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC?)

Full description

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Immediately west of Lee Green cottages is a cropmark complex that includes two ring-ditches and a number of enclosures. The 2009-2012 English Heritage Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscaoe Project interrepted these as possible neolithic / early bronze age features. (1,2)


<1> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.

<2> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project.
<2>Digital archive: Historic England. 2012. National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula.

Related records

TQ 77 SW 27Parent of: Two possible ring-ditches seen in cropmark, Lee Green Cottages (Monument)