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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 05 NE 183 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Iron Age dykes, Blean Woods |
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Summary
Extensive major earthworks. It is thought that these could be of Iron Age date, forming a dyke system and routeways related to Bigbury Camp.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0918 5695 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR05NE |
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| Parish: | CHILHAM, ASHFORD, KENT |
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| CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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| HARBLEDOWN AND ROUGH COMMON, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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| DUNKIRK, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DYKE (DEFENCE) (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Iron Age earthworks 2km south-west of Bigbury Camp, Hunstead Wood, Chartham Hatch; Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Iron Age earthworks,4.4km south-west of Bigbury Camp, Joan Beech Wood, Rhode Common |
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Full description
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In 2008 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out a walkover survey of the Blean Woods. Extensive major earthworks were identified. It is thought that these could be of Iron Age date, forming a dyke system with Bigbury Camp. (1)
The area was surveyed as part of the South Blean Woods Landscape History Project. Elements of the system were identified on Lidar survey results and subsequently groundtruthed. They were described as woodland banks, boundary banks and trackways. (2)
<1> Weekes, J., 2012, Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports, Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 296-8 (Article in serial). SKE25119.
<2> Kent Wildlife Trust, 2013, South Blean Woods, Canterbury, Kent: Landscape History Project (Unpublished document). SKE25175.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Weekes, J.. 2012. Canterbury Archaeological Trust Interim Reports. Arch Cant CXXXII: 291-305. Archaeologia Cantiana CXXXII 2012: 296-8. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Kent Wildlife Trust. 2013. South Blean Woods, Canterbury, Kent: Landscape History Project. |
