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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NE 10 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of a banjo enclosure in a field to the west of Salt Farm, Fawkham |
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Summary
Possible site of an Iron Age farmstead, Banjo enclosure.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5951 6889 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NE |
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| Parish: | FAWKHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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| HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Prehistoric 'Banjo' enclosure identified from field survey and aerial photographs |
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Full description
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[TQ 5951 6889] Earthworks (Site of) [NAT] (1) [TQ 5951 6889] - [sited from AP see AO/LP/63/325]. Cropmarks in a field to the W of Salt Farm, Fawkham were first noted by Mr Raine and subsequently photographed from the air by O.G.S.Crawford. The chief feature is a pentagon-shaped enclosure, with a wide entrance roadway or ditch in one side, which Jessup compares with the EIA farm at Woodbury. Also in the field are some ploughed-out deneholes. The only finds within the enclosure were two sherds of sub-Roman pottery. Half a dozen poor flint flakes have been found on the surface in other parts of the field. (2,3) Area under permanent pasture: Nothing seen. (4)
Banjo enclosure with antennae aligned north east. Rectilinear feature nearby and curvilinear feature to west. (7)
Visible on the 2007 Google Earth image.
<1> OS 6" 1936 (OS Card Reference). SKE48337.
<2> Arch Cant 47 1935 241 (N Cook) (OS Card Reference). SKE35219.
<3> Arch Cant 54 1941 74 illus (R F Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE35285.
<4> F1 ASP 28-AUG-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42331.
<5> Proc Hants FC and AS 29 1972 63-73 map (B T Perry) (OS Card Reference). SKE48713.
<6> Field report for monument TQ 56 NE 10 - August, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2876.
<7> AP (NMR TQ 5968/1; Date unknown) (OS Card Reference). SKE33597.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1936. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 47 1935 241 (N Cook). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 54 1941 74 illus (R F Jessup). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 28-AUG-64. |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Proc Hants FC and AS 29 1972 63-73 map (B T Perry). |
| <6>XY | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 NE 10 - August, 1964. [Mapped feature: #43329 settlement, ] |
| <7> | OS Card Reference: AP (NMR TQ 5968/1; Date unknown). |
