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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 02 NE 8 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | "The Money Bank" Earthwork |
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Summary
A bank [of earth?] at Dymchurch is known as the "Money Bank" because of the number of Roman coins found in it. It was "within a short distance" of the Roman finds made in building the sea wall at Dymchurch [TR 02 NE 1].
| Grid Reference: | TR 09 28 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR02NE |
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| Parish: | DYMCHURCH, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- COIN (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Full description
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A bank [of earth?] at Dymchurch is known as the "Money Bank" because of the number of Roman coins found in it. It was "within a short distance" of the Roman finds made in building the sea wall at Dymchurch [TR 02 NE 1]. (1)
This area was surveyed as part of the South East RCZAS NMP project. The bank mentioned previously in this record was not visible on historic aerial photographs (2).
<1> BAA Rep for Meeting at Canterbury Sept 1844 118 (S Isaacson) (OS Card Reference). SKE37453.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: BAA Rep for Meeting at Canterbury Sept 1844 118 (S Isaacson). |
| <2>XY | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. [Mapped feature: #37237 Bank, ] |
