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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 NE 300 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible barrow cemetery, south-east of Oxney Court |
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Summary
A possible barrow cemetery of 9 barrows.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3568 4666 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34NE |
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| Parish: | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DITCH (Unknown date)
- ENCLOSURE (Unknown date)
- BARROW CEMETERY? (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
- TREE CLUMP (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Ring ditches possible barrow cemetery |
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Full description
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A possible barrow cemetery of 9 barrows. The 1st Ed OS map shows 9 circular and sub-circular tree plantations, relating to nearby Oxney Court. These may preserve the position of large barrows. The presence of smaller ring ditches to the south and east hints that this might be the case.
See 1st-4th Ed OS maps and 2007 Google Earth image.
See also TR 34 NE 299 and TR 34 NE 296.
Several areas of cropmarks indicated enclosures, pits and connecting ditches, one or two which seem to be overcut may be remnants of Ring ditches
The 1790s OS drawings show a field system here. The corners of some of the fields correspond to some of the barrows. Is the field system utilising existing features in the landscape to demarkate the fields, or are they later features that were created when the field system went out of use? (1-4)
<1> KARU Record Card DV 254 (OS Card Reference). SKE55289.
<2> APs (NMR 244,245) (OS Card Reference). SKE34228.
<3> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<4> AP (1976 D Lukehurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE33320.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: KARU Record Card DV 254. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: APs (NMR 244,245). |
| <3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: AP (1976 D Lukehurst). |
Related records
| TR 34 NE 299 | Parent of: Cropmark of a possible ring ditch, south of Oxney Court (Monument) |
| TR 34 NE 296 | Parent of: Possible Barrow Cemetery (Monument) |
| TR 34 NE 400 | Parent of: Two irregular enclosures (Monument) |
