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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NE 147 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Ring ditch and pit cropmark features, Updown Farm, Margate |
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Summary
Cropmarks of a ring ditch and a large pit feature. The ring ditch may be the remains of a Bronze Age barrow. Identified from aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3673 6930 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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| Parish: | MARGATE, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PIT (Unknown date)
- RING DITCH (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Possible group of prehistoric ring-ditches and other features identified from cropmarks |
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Full description
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TR 36736930. Cropmark of possible barrow. (1) RCHME AP shows a large single-ditched ring ditch at TR 3671 6929, part of a small ring ditch at TR 3672 6929 and a possible large pit at TR 3673 6931. (2)
<1> AP (NMR TR 3669/11; 1.8.85) (OS Card Reference). SKE33784.
<2> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, Thanet SMR, cropmark plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6443.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: AP (NMR TR 3669/11; 1.8.85). [Mapped feature: #62463 cropmark, ] |
| <2> | Miscellaneous Material: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Thanet SMR, cropmark plot.. |
