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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NW 83
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmarks of enclosures, barrows & field systems, near Woodchurch

Summary

Cropmarks of enclosures, barrows & field systems in fields near Woodchurch. No further information.

Grid Reference:TR 335 673
Map Sheet:TR36NW
Parish:MANSTON, THANET, KENT

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TR 335673. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of enclosures, barrows and TR 355678 (sic) field systems. Site nos. 121 & 122. (1)

Cropmarks of rectilinear enclosures - possibly medieval in date, part of a line of similar enclosures thought to be aligned along a lost track or roadway extending to the north of this site.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 from aerial photographs NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983 as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024.

Two barrows on the sout-western edge of this group of enclosures have been recorded in TR 36 NW 139 and MKE 124914(2)


<1> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49864.

<2> 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>XYOS Card Reference: Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 9 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit). [Mapped feature: #63838 cropmark, ]
<2>Archive: Historic England Archive. 1920-2024. Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs. NMR 2134/1094 26-APR-1983.