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Monument details

Summary

Eastbridge - Listed as a Deserted Medieval Village but there is at present no evidence to support this theory.

Monument Types

• DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Abandoned, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full description

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Centred at TR 07413212. Eastbridge Deserted Medieval Village had twenty-one people in the 1801 census. (1)

Eastbridge Church (TR 03 SE 4) is on a slight mound in Romney Marsh. No evidence of a DMV was seen in the vicinity. (2)

TR 074322. Eastbridge listed as a Deserted Medieval Village in Kent. (3)

Maurice Beresford and John G Hurst eds. Deserted Medieval Villages, 1971, list 69 places for Kent in their County Gazetteers of Deserted Medieval Villages. In most cases there is nothing to prove that there was a village at the sites in question. A deserted church site or isolated church certainly does not prove the existence of a deserted village. (4)

Trenching running close to the churchyard produced no finds or features. (6)

<1> Lost Villages of Eng 1954 359 (M Beresford) (OS Card Reference). SKE46180.

<2> F1 ASP 11-DEC-1962 (OS Card Reference). SKE42048.

<3> Deserted Md Villages 1971 191 (ed M Beresford J G Hurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE39714.

<4> Everitt, A. M., 1976, The Making of the Agrarian Landscape of Kent, Archaeologia Cantiana 92 1976 pages 1-31 (Article in serial). SKE7793.

<5> 1962, Field report for monument TR 03 SE 13 - December, 1962 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5113.

<6> South Eastern Archaeological Services, 1996, An Archaeological Watching Brief at Eastbridge, near Burmarsh, Kent. (Unpublished document). SKE7106.

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