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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 13 NE 12 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bitchborrow Mount ? barrow (site of) |
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Summary
Possible barrow underlying footings of a medieval building on Summerhouse Hill.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1669 3773 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR13NE |
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| Parish: | NEWINGTON, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A round barrow at Saltwood is listed by the authors who give the wrong O.S. 6" sheet (XXVI N.W.) and state that a tower is on the site. Their small distribution map shows this barrow about one and a half miles east of south of the Tolsford Hill barrows. (see TR 13 NE 3) (1) On the highest point of Summerhouse Hill at TR 16693773 there are the footings of a small circular building measuring 3.7m in external diameter. The building is placed upon a low circular mound measuring 11.0m in diameter and 0.3m in height around which there are faint traces of a ditch. On a map of 1685 (a) the building is shown as a small tower with a cupola-roof on a hill called "Bitchborrow Mount". Without excavation it is difficult to determine whether the mound is contemporary with the tower, but the name "Bitchborrow" (now Beachborough) suggests a barrow. (2) A tumulus is listed in Saltwood. (3)
RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.
RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKe6910.
<1> Arch Cant 74 1960 56 (P Ashbee and GC Dunning) (OS Card Reference). SKE35576.
<2> Map of Hythe dated 1685 (Thos Hill) (Hythe Mus) (OS Card Reference). SKE46514.
<3> F1 ASP 17.05.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42143.
<4> VCH Kent 1 1908 331 (G Clinch) (OS Card Reference). SKE50836.
<5> Field report for monument TR 13 NE 12 - May, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5335.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main. |
| <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 74 1960 56 (P Ashbee and GC Dunning). [Mapped feature: #41116 Find, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Map of Hythe dated 1685 (Thos Hill) (Hythe Mus). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 17.05.63. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 331 (G Clinch). |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 13 NE 12 - May, 1963. |
