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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NW 81
Type of record:Monument
Name:Ring ditch, enclosure crop marks, Margate

Summary

Cropmarks of a suspected ring ditch, and enclosures. Identified from aerial photographs taken in 1972.

Grid Reference:TR 3395 6789
Map Sheet:TR36NW
Parish:MANSTON, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Ring ditch

Full description

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Ring ditch at TR 33956788. Probable enclosures at TR 33886804 and TR 33896786. (1) TR 340679. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of an enclosure. Isle of Thanet Archaeology Unit Site no. 118. on aerial photogrpahs CUCAP BIW 23-24 20-JUN-1972 (2)

Cropmarks of a large sub-circular macula of an infilled depression or pit can be seen at this location on aerial photographs -NMR 962/97 09-JUL-1976- . This was mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. The aerial photographs viewed for The RCHME Kent NMP aerial survey (CUCAP BIW 23-24 20-JUN-1972) also show a dark cropmark macula at this location, but no ring ditch (3).


<1> AP (CUC BIW 23-4, 26-7; 20 6 72) (OS Card Reference). SKE33387.

<2> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49864.

<3> Historic England Archive, 1920-2024, Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs, NMR 962/97 09-JUL-1976 (Archive). SKE57106.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYOS Card Reference: AP (CUC BIW 23-4, 26-7; 20 6 72). [Mapped feature: #63818 cropmark, ]
<2>OS Card Reference: Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit).
<3>Archive: Historic England Archive. 1920-2024. Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs. NMR 962/97 09-JUL-1976.