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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NE 5 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible prehistoric earthworks, formerly thought to be a Roman camp |
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Summary
An aerial photograph from 1947 revealed double banks and ditches with straight sides and one corner clearly rounded. The site was thought to be a Roman camp but no Roman remains have been discovered, only numerous flint flakes.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5854 6945 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NE |
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| Parish: | HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
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(TQ 58546945) Possible Roman Camp, Gills Wood, visible on A.P. No. 4062, CPE/UK/2065/May 14th, 1947. Double banks and ditches, straight sides, one corner clearly rounded. Traces of a curved ditch beneath, possibly pre-Roman. Parish boundary follows S.E. side and delineates earthwork where the air photo fails to show them. Earthwork visible on ground (Gills wood recently grubbed up), but no Roman material found as yet, though many flint flakes. This angular earthwork lies on a chalk corridor (between Thanet Sand to N. and Clay with Flints to S.) stretching from Rochester to River Darenth about Horton Kirby (a). Possible Roman marching camp overlying Iron Age occupation site (b). (1) Gills Wood no longer exists: the area has been incorporated into the surrounding fields and is under cultivation. There are now no traces of earthworks. (2) No change. (3) Additional bibliography - not consulted. (4) This site has been re-classified as part of RCHME Roman Camps in England Project and the supposed Roman camp rejected. (5)
<1> Arch. Cant, 61 (1948), p.182 (Meates). (OS Card Reference). SKE36963.
<2> Corr. 6" (G.W. Meates 1951) (OS Card Reference). SKE39290.
<3> AP No 4062, CPE/UK/2065/May 14th 1947 (OS Card Reference). SKE34185.
<4> F2 ASP 15.7.60 (OS Card Reference). SKE43113.
<5> F2 ASP 28-AUG-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43182.
<6> Roman remains at Darenth 1895-6 (Bidden J) (OS Card Reference). SKE49337.
<7> Field report for monument TQ 56 NE 5 - August, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2867.
<8> Humphrey Welfare and Vivien Swan/1994/RCHME: Roman Camps in England Project (OS Card Reference). SKE44185.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Arch. Cant, 61 (1948), p.182 (Meates).. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Corr. 6" (G.W. Meates 1951). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: AP No 4062, CPE/UK/2065/May 14th 1947. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: F2 ASP 15.7.60. |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: F2 ASP 28-AUG-64. |
| <6> | OS Card Reference: Roman remains at Darenth 1895-6 (Bidden J). |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 NE 5 - August, 1964. |
| <8> | OS Card Reference: Humphrey Welfare and Vivien Swan/1994/RCHME: Roman Camps in England Project. |
