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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 66 NE 209 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Lynchets, Cobham Hall Park |
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Summary
Lynchets of a field system, identified as possibly of Roman date and associated with the villa site.
It should be noted that this feature follows the line of an tree lined avenue shown on the Russell 1718 map and the MALSC 1719 map of Cobham Hall Park. Available from Medway Archives Reference Nos. ?
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6810 6910 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ66NE |
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| Parish: | COBHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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An earthwork survey of Cobham Hall park in 2002 by the Birmingham University Archaeological Field Unit recorded lynchets in close proximity to the Roman villa site. On this basis, they were described as possibly forming part of a Romano-British field system across the area. (1)
These features follows the line of an tree lined avenue shown on the Russell 1718 map and the MALSC 1719 map of Cobham Hall Park. Available from Medway Archives Reference Nos. U565/P3 and U565/E743.
<1> Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit, 2002, Cobham Park I: Level-2 Survey - Gazetteer of Sites (Unpublished document). SKE17816.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit. 2002. Cobham Park I: Level-2 Survey - Gazetteer of Sites. |
