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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 26 NE 171
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Rectilinear cropmark features and ring ditches, Monkton

Summary

Aerial photographs taken for the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England show a large, rectilinear enclosure to the east of Monkton roundabout. It is suspected that these features may be part of a medieval farmstead recorded in the area (see TR 26 NE 168). Around this are five small, single-ditched ring ditches which are now recorded separately.

Grid Reference:	TR 2908 6561
Map Sheet:	TR26NE
Parish:	MONKTON, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

RING DITCH (Unknown date)

Protected Status:	Scheduled Monument 1018880: ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AND ASSOCIATED REMAINS AT MONKTON, 550M NORTH OF WALTERS HALL FARM; Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Cropmarks of a Bronze Age and/or Saxon barrow cemetery and potential settlement foci, north of Monkton

Full description

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RCHME AP shows large, rectilinear enclosure with S small, single-ditched, ring ditches just outside. Possibly the same site as TR 26 NE 168 (medieval farmstead) (1-3).

Geophysical survey undertaken in 1992(4).

From the National Heritage List of England:

Crop marks visible on aerial photographs indicate three circular, ditched graves and an associated irregular enclosure near the northern edge of the monument.

Fragmented cropmarks of a possible settlement enclosure of Medieval date mapped from CUCAP CW65 19-JUL-1949 as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. The enclosure complex is trapezoidal and sub-divided. It measures c.95m W-E and 70m N-S at the western end, tapering to around 35m at the eastern end. The site now partially lies beneath the A299. Traces of a possible building are visible as cropmarks in the SE quadrant at TR 2912 6562. The cropmark ofa small penannular ring ditch appears to overlap the NW corner of the enclosure. The cropmark remains of a number of small ring ditches thought to be either Bronze Age or perhaps early medieval round barrows have also been noted in this record. These have been recorded separately.(5)

<1> RCHME, NMP Kent Pilot Project Crop Mark Transcription (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6448.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1996, Canterbury's Archaeology 1994 - 1995 (Serial). SKE11882.

<3> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1991, Proposed Improvements to The A253 Between Monkton & Ramsgate: The Archaeological Implications (Unpublished document). SKE11867.

<4> Clark, A. J. & Bartlett, A. D. H., 1992, Thanet, Kent: Proposed Improvements to A253 Report on Geophysical Survey (Unpublished document). SWX6777.

<5> Historic England Archive, 1949-1976, Historic England Archive CUCAP oblique aerial photographs, CUCAP CW65 19-JUL-1949 (Archive). SKE57107.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Miscellaneous Material: RCHME. NMP Kent Pilot Project Crop Mark Transcription.
<2>	Serial: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1996. Canterbury's Archaeology 1994 - 1995.
<3>	Unpublished document: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. 1991. Proposed Improvements to The A253 Between Monkton & Ramsgate: The Archaeological Implications.
<4>	Unpublished document: Clark, A. J. & Bartlett, A. D. H.. 1992. Thanet, Kent: Proposed Improvements to A253 Report on Geophysical Survey.
<5>	Archive: Historic England Archive. 1949-1976. Historic England Archive CUCAP oblique aerial photographs. CUCAP CW65 19-JUL-1949.

Related records

TR 26 NE 168

Parent of: Medieval farmstead, Monkton (Monument)