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Monument details

HER Number:MKE83225
Type of record:Farmstead
Name:Sheepfold on Higham Marshes

Summary

An outfarm with a loose courtyard plan with a building to one side of the yard.

Summary from record TQ 77 NW 1031:

Remains of enclosure

Grid Reference:TQ 7066 7522
Map Sheet:TQ77NW
Parish:HIGHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT

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Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on one side
Position: Isolated position
Survivial: Farmstead completely demolished
Notes: Tithe: enclosure only
(1-2)

Description from record TQ 77 NW 1031:
Remains of enclosure. Photographs (1-3). No Access to this monument during 2005 coastal survey (4)


<1> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10278.

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10272.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10112.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Forum Heritage Services. 2012. Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project.
<1>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 176. print.
<2>Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping.
<2>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 163. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 2048. print.
<4>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.