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Monument details

HER Number:TR 35 SE 113
Type of record:Monument
Name:Cropmark of a barrow cemetery

Summary

Extensive barrow cemetery of unknown date lying across 3 fields on Sholden Down. Cropmarks are visible on aerial photographs


Grid Reference:TR 351 522
Map Sheet:TR35SE
Parish:DEAL, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: A complex of enclosures and linears, probably of later prehistoric date, are visible as cropmarks on the Sholden Downs.

Full description

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Extensive barrow cemetery lying across 3 fields on Sholden Down: principal features are at TR 35145215; TR 35045231; TR 34935272; TR 35005262; TR 35015248; TR 34695268-TR 34905253; TR 349155238; TR 35435220; TR 35585219. (1)

Additional info. (2)


<1> AP (RAF 106G UK 1724 1724 F4076; 10 9 46) (OS Card Reference). SKE34048.

<2> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1996, Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE7108.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYOS Card Reference: AP (RAF 106G UK 1724 1724 F4076; 10 9 46). [Mapped feature: #59395 Cropmark, ]
<2>Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1996. Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent.