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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 152 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Ring ditch |
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Summary
Cropmarks of a ring ditch, with internal pits, visible within a larger area of cropmarking on 1980s oblique aerial photography.
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | FORDWICH, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Ring ditch |
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Full description
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Cropmarks of a single ring ditch are visible on 1960s and 1980s aerial photographs within a larger area of cropmark features (recorded as MWX43014).
An incomplete circuit of the ring ditch is visible on 1980s RCHME oblique aerial photographs [1], with the full circuit showing on 1960s OS vertical aerial photographs [2].
The ring ditch is 26m in diameter and there are cropmarks of irregular pit and scoop-like features in its interior. It is unclear if these features are contemporary or related to the ring ditch.
This may represent the remains of a ploughed out round barrow of Bronze Age date.
A further ring ditch of similar size lies 480m to the east within a dense area of cropmarked features of multiple dates (MWX43062).
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<1> NMR TR 1859/2 (28-05-80) (OS Card Reference). SKE47648.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<3> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: NMR TR 1859/2 (28-05-80). |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
| <3>XY | 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. [Mapped feature: #43478 cropmark, ] |
| <4> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |
