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Monument details

HER Number:	MWX43057
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Later Prehistoric linear feature on Christ Church College playing field, Fordwich

Summary

Later Prehistoric section of a linear ditch visible as a faint cropmark on 1946 aerial photographs, date and function unclear. May be related to possible enclosures recorded as cropmarks 40m to NW (MWX43058).

Grid Reference:	TR 18654 59176
Map Sheet:	TR15NE
Parish:	FORDWICH, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

LINEAR EARTHWORK (Early Neolithic to Post Medieval - 4000 BC to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Section of a linear ditch visible as a faint cropmark on 1946 aerial photographs [1]. The ditch is aligned N-S and is visible for 112m. Whether there is any northward continuation of the ditch is unclear due to extensive geological marking in that part of the field.

The date and function of the ditch is unclear. It may represent a Later Prehistoric boundary ditch as a similar ditch was discovered and excavated in a nearby quarry (MKE4513), this was of late Iron Age date. Cropmarks of possible enclosures (MWX43058) lie 40m to the northwest of the northern end of this feature and may be related.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [2].

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<2> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<2>	Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping.
<2>	Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report.
<2>	Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions.

Related records

TR 15 NE 23	Parent of: Iron age ditch, Trenley Park Woods (Monument)
MWX43058	Part of: Possible enclosures on Christ Church College playing field, Fordwich (Monument)