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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NW 40 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of Bronze Age barrows, Birchington |
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Summary
Cropmark of probable Bronze Age barrows. Identified from aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3125 6917 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NW |
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| Parish: | BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC (at some time) to 701 BC (at some time))
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Probable prehistoric barrow identified from cropmark |
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Full description
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[TR 31246918] Cropmarks (Ring ditch). (1) There is nothing to be seen on the ground which is under freshly sown pasture. The crop mark probably represents the site of a bronze age barrow. (2) TR 312691. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of bronze age barrows. Site no. 26. (3) TR 31256919. Circular enclosure with entrance on east. Scatter of pits to the south east, with a single pit farthest out at TR 31446902. (4) Cropmarks of bronze age barrows were observed here. (5)
Additional Information (6 & 7).
Cropmarks of a single large oval enclosure with interruptions in the ditch or fragmented cropmark on the NW side 40.6m x48m (site 3 above) visile on aerial photographs -EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 12-1960 ACCESSED 18-MAR-2024- amongst the cropmarks of fragmented rectilinear enclosures and a scatter of pits. All features were mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024 (8)
<1> St. Joseph A/P ADI.55 (OS Card Reference). SKE49647.
<2> F1 FGA 18-FEB-65 (OS Card Reference). SKE42937.
<3> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 4 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49857.
<4> AP (NMR TR 3169/1-2; 9 7 76) (OS Card Reference). SKE33715.
<5> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1987, Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive, Isle of Thanet Arch Unit sites and mons Archive 1988 26 (Collection). SKE11846.
<6> Field report for monument TR 36 NW 40 - February, 1965 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6243.
<7> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1997, A Proposed Development of Land at Park Road/Canterbury Road, Birchington: The Archaeological Implications (Unpublished document). SWX7102.
<8> Google.Com, 1960-2023, Earth.Google.Com orthophotography, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 12-1960 ACCESSED 18-MAR-2024 (Archive). SKE57111.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: St. Joseph A/P ADI.55. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 FGA 18-FEB-65. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 4 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Arch Unit). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: AP (NMR TR 3169/1-2; 9 7 76). |
| <5>XY | Collection: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. 1987. Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive. Isle of Thanet Arch Unit sites and mons Archive 1988 26. [Mapped feature: #63383 cropmarks, ] |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 36 NW 40 - February, 1965. |
| <7> | Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1997. A Proposed Development of Land at Park Road/Canterbury Road, Birchington: The Archaeological Implications. |
| <8> | Archive: Google.Com. 1960-2023. Earth.Google.Com orthophotography. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 12-1960 ACCESSED 18-MAR-2024. |
