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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NE 191
Type of record:Monument
Name:Rectangular enclosure cropmark, northdown, Margate

Summary

Cropmarks of large rectangular enclosures at Northdown. Identified from aerial photographs and interpreted as Romano-British filled boundary ditches.


Grid Reference:TR 373 697
Map Sheet:TR36NE
Parish:MARGATE, THANET, KENT

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TR 373697. Romano-British enclosures. Aerial photographs in the 1960s showed linear cropmarks suggesting large rectangular enclosures. Romano-British filled boundary ditches. (1) A single- ditched ring ditch is visible on RCHME AP, located in the corner of the enclosure at TR 3729 6966. (2)


<1> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec no 284 (OS Card Reference). SKE44639.

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

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYOS Card Reference: Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec no 284. [Mapped feature: #62905 cropmark, ]
<2>Miscellaneous Material: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. Thanet SMR, cropmark plot..