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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NE 156
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible barrow ring ditch cropmark, Updown Farm, Margate parish

Summary

A possible barrow surviving as a ring ditch cropmark at Updown Farm. Identified from aerial photographs.


Grid Reference:TR 3651 6898
Map Sheet:TR36NE
Parish:MARGATE, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • BARROW (Early Bronze Age to Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 2350 BC? to 1065 AD?)
  • RING DITCH (Early Bronze Age to Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 2350 BC? to 1065 AD?)

Full description

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[TR 3651 6898] Cropmark of possible barrow. (1)

Single-ditched, ring ditch located at TR 3651 6909, located from air photographs. (2)

Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. Desk based assessment [3].


<1> AP (NMR TR 3668/3; 16.7.79) (OS Card Reference). SKE33781.

<2> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, Thanet SMR, cropmark plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6443.

<3> 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 A Desk Based Study (Unpublished document).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>XYOS Card Reference: AP (NMR TR 3668/3; 16.7.79). [Mapped feature: #62545 Cropmark, ]
<2>Miscellaneous Material: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Thanet SMR, cropmark plot..
<3>Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1995. Thanet Reach Business Park Development: Archaeological Implications. A Desk Based Study.