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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 171 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric possible trackway, Copperhouse Marshes, Gillingham |
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Summary
Timber remains, possibly part of a prehistoric trackway. Included three locations of roundwood tracks in peat running south across a creek. Possibly late Bronze Age in date?
| Grid Reference: | TQ 800 690 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NW |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- TRACKWAY? (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
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Timber, poss prehistoric trackway identified by Upchurch Arch Group (1). Surveyed 1999: three locations of roundwood tracks in peat running south across creek. 1 hurdle type. LBA. A fourth location with larger timbers in peat/blue clay borders deep silt to creek - date? (2).
<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Upchurch Arch group 1992 report on Nor Marsh sites to KCC (site no. 49) (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
<2> Upchurch Archaeological Research Group, 1999, Medway Estuary, site locations and summary., Upchurch Arch Res Grp (Unpublished document). SWX9337.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Upchurch Arch group 1992 report on Nor Marsh sites to KCC (site no. 49). |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Upchurch Archaeological Research Group. 1999. Medway Estuary, site locations and summary.. Upchurch Arch Res Grp. |
