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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NE 62 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Undated cropmarks, west of Dane Court Road, Broadstairs |
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Summary
A double ring ditch, with at least one entrance or causeway, is visible as a cropmark. It is overlain by a cropmark rectangular enclosure, and a second cropmark rectangular enclosure lies to the south east. All are scheduled.
| Grid Reference: | TR 375 685 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- RING DITCH (Prehistoric or Roman - 500000 BC? to 409 AD?)
- ENCLOSURE (Early Neolithic to Roman - 4000 BC to 43 AD)
Full description
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TR 375685, Double ring ditch and two enclosures NW of Danescourt. (1) The double ring ditch would appear to be causewayed. The rectangular structure seems to overlay it and is possibly associated with another rectangular enclosure to the south-east. Scheduled (2). TR 376685 (sited to nearest 50m) Cropmarks of enclosures. Site no 99. (3)
Undated cropmarks. Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. Desk based assessment [4]. Possibly related to Thanet Sites and Monuments record no.206.
<1> DOE(IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978 109 (OS Card Reference). SKE41412.
<2> DOE(IAM) Record Form 21.2.73 plan (OS Card Reference). SKE41441.
<3> Thanet The Arch Heritage c.1982 8 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49890.
<4> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1995, Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. A Desk Based Study (Unpublished document). SWX7097.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: DOE(IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978 109. [Mapped feature: #61638 cropmark, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(IAM) Record Form 21.2.73 plan. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Thanet The Arch Heritage c.1982 8 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Arch Unit). |
| <4> | Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1995. Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. A Desk Based Study. |
