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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 1
Type of record:Monument
Name:Round barrow, probable bowl barrow (site of)

Summary

Two round barrows have been recorded on Famine Down; one was destroyed by railway construction an the other although 21m in diameter in 1954 had been ploughed out by 1964.

Grid Reference:TR 3332 4492
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:GUSTON, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

Full description

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[TR 33324492] Tumulus [NR] (1) Two round barrows on Famine Down, Guston, are listed (a) The site of one which was destroyed by a now-disused light railway, cannot be identified. The other has recently been completely ploughed out. In 1954 (b) it was 21.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. It was probably a bowl barrow. Published 25" survey revised. (2)

Additional Info(5,6)


<1> OS 25" 1958 (OS Card Reference). SKE48274.

<2> Arch Cant 74 1960 55 (P Ashbee and GC Dunning) (OS Card Reference). SKE35574.

<3> F1 ASP 19.05.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42175.

<4> Field report for monument TR 34 SW 1 - May, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5951.

<5> RPS Coulston, 1993, Proposed pipeline route A1 preliminary archaeological and ecological review of the proposed aligm't (Unpublished document). SKE6817.

<6> RPS, 1995, St Margarets, Cliffe, to Brickfield Cottages, Water Pipeline: Archaeological Monitoring Report (Unpublished document). SKE7105.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 25" 1958.
<2>XYOS Card Reference: Arch Cant 74 1960 55 (P Ashbee and GC Dunning). [Mapped feature: #55043 barrow, ]
<3>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 19.05.64.
<4>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 34 SW 1 - May, 1964.
<5>Unpublished document: RPS Coulston. 1993. Proposed pipeline route A1 preliminary archaeological and ecological review of the proposed aligm't.
<6>Unpublished document: RPS. 1995. St Margarets, Cliffe, to Brickfield Cottages, Water Pipeline: Archaeological Monitoring Report.