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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 NW 1022 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Wooden stake and brushwood trackway on foreshore near the mouth of Broadness Creek |
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Summary
A well-preserved section of wooden trackway lying on a peaty foreshore, near Swanscombe Marshes by mouth of Broadness Creek.
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60412 76528 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67NW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- TRACKWAY (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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A well-preserved section of wooden trackway lying on a peaty foreshore. It comprises two rows of double parallel stakes with exposures of brushwood and what is probably a wattle track. The feature runs NE-SW for 25m-30m . It is in a good state of preservation, though parts of it have been exposed in an eroding sea cliff by the channel. It is approximately 1m wide. The upright wooden stakes round and rectangular in section 0.05m-0.07m diameter/ 0.02m x 0.05m. The seacliff has major density of flints visible in it, which was perhaps laid down to support the track or an earlier attempt to consolidate the ground? Locals reported a submerged forest further down shore below the trackway, this is apparently only visible at the lowest tides. (1)
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
<1> 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Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
