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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NW 257
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmarks of ring ditches and trackway, Acol

Summary

The cropmarks of ring ditches and a trackway were identified in fields to the east of Acol. The trackway was a wish-bone shaped junction, possibly of ancient trackway, and the two ring ditches were single ditched features. These were recorded in the cropmark plot of the Isle of Thanet Sites and Monuments Record - no further information about them could be found.


Grid Reference:TR 3117 6713
Map Sheet:TR36NW
Parish:ACOL, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Undated ring ditch. 20m in diameter, with an entrance to the SW. Visible from aerial photographs

Full description

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Wish-bone shaped junction of ancient trackway located at TR 3130 6729, with 2 single-ditched, ring ditches located at TR 3118 6732 and TR 3151 6728. (1-2)

Ring ditch. 20m in diameter, with an entrance to the SW.


<1> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, Thanet SMR, cropmark plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6443.

<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Arch. implications of development at Kent Int. Business Park 2, Trust for Thanet arch, 1996. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Miscellaneous Material: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Thanet SMR, cropmark plot..
<2>Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Arch. implications of development at Kent Int. Business Park 2, Trust for Thanet arch, 1996..