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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 66 SE 4 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Sarsen stones [non-antiquity] at Ryarsh |
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Summary
At the beginning of the twentieth century nine sarsen stones in Ryarsh were listed as a megalithic monument or the remains of a Stone Circle. This theory has been discounted in favour of large stones being removed during field clearance and placed in a stream bed.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6607 6089 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ66SE |
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| Parish: | RYARSH, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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[TQ 66076089] Stone Circle [NR] (Remains of) (1) Sarsen Stones [NAT] (1-2) Nine large stones in stream bed. Now dry but usually in water, thrown here from the neighbouring fields during ploughing. Certainly not megalithic monument. Delete 'Stone Circle', describe as 'Stones'. (3)
<1> OS 6" 1909 (OS Card Reference). SKE48324.
<2> OS 6" 1936 (OS Card Reference). SKE48337.
<3> Rec 6" (RF Jessup & JH Evans Sept 47) (OS Card Reference). SKE49073.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1909. [Mapped feature: #14994 Stones, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1936. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Rec 6" (RF Jessup & JH Evans Sept 47). |
