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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NW 80 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of medieval enclosures, The Nook Hackthorn Farm, Margate |
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Summary
Cropmarks of large rectangular enclosures, possibly a medieval settlement visible on aerial photographs -NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983
| Grid Reference: | TR 335 674 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NW |
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| Parish: | MANSTON, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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TR 335675. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of an enclosure. Site no. 117. (1) Cropmarks showing a large system of rectangular enclosures appearing in cereals. 'Although these cropmarks probably show enclosures', it must be borne in mind that a wind pump stood here and the markings may show the signs of reservoir banks (see also TR 36 NW 83). (2)
Cropmarks of a probable medieval settlement enclosure complex is visible on aerial photographs : NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983. This is one of a series of similar enclosures which extend over 540m NE from this site, probably aligned along a long-lost trackway. The site appears as a cluster of rectilinear ditched enclosures, the largest of which measures c.60m x 78m and has traces of sub-divisions and two large internal dark maculae representing areas of infilled depressions of later quarrying.This site was mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024.(3)
<1> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49864.
<2> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec no 117 (OS Card Reference). SKE44561.
<3> Historic England Archive, 1920-2024, Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs, NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983 (Archive). SKE57106.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 Rec no 117. |
| <3> | Archive: Historic England Archive. 1920-2024. Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs. NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983. |
