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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NW 103 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmark of rectilinear enclosure, Birchington |
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Summary
Rectilinear enclosure cropmark feature. Identified from aerial photographs. Site is of unknown date and has been partly built over.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3152 6905 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NW |
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| Parish: | MARGATE, THANET, KENT |
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| BIRCHINGTON, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Undated rectilinear enclosure cropmark feature. Identified from aerial photographs. Site is of unknown date and has been partly built over. |
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Full description
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Site identified during transcription of features recorded on air photographs. (1) Site partly built over. Additonal data(2-3).
Cropmarks of a the western end of a large rectilinear (trapezoidal) ditched enclosure of uncertain date (possibly Iron Age, Roman or medieval) visisble in the field to the west of Allen Avenue on aerial photographs -NMR 962/57 09-JUL-1976 which pre-date the housing development. A further short fragment of the NW side of the enclosure was identified as a cropmark, but it and the rest of the (undetected) part of the enclosure now lies beneath the housing). This site was mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024 (4).
<1> David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent (OS Card Reference). SKE39678.
<2> Trust for Thanet Archaeology, 1987, Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive (Collection). SKE11846.
<3> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1997, A Proposed Development of Land at Park Road/Canterbury Road, Birchington: The Archaeological Implications (Unpublished document). SWX7102.
<4> Historic England Archive, 1964-2005, Historic England Archive Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs, NMR 962/57 09-JUL-1976 (Archive). SKE57105.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent. |
| <2> | Collection: Trust for Thanet Archaeology. 1987. Isle of Thanet Archaeological Unit Sites and Monuments Archive. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1997. A Proposed Development of Land at Park Road/Canterbury Road, Birchington: The Archaeological Implications. |
| <4> | Archive: Historic England Archive. 1964-2005. Historic England Archive Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs. NMR 962/57 09-JUL-1976. |
