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Monument details

Summary

The cropmarks of an enclosure were identified in aerial photgraphs taken of an area to the east of Acol. The Thanet Sites and Monuments Archive report a number of Roman pottery sherds and fragments of tegulae in the area believed to be derived from this site. Modern roofing tile has also been found in at the site and local tradition reports an old building or barn known as 'Sparrow Castle' at this location.

Monument Types

• BARROW (Early Bronze Age to Early Medieval or Anglo-Saxon - 2350 BC? to 1065 AD?)
• RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Roman to Post Medieval - 43 AD? to 1900 AD?)

Associated Finds

• POTTERY ASSEMBLAGE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• ROOF TILE (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• ROOF TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1900 AD?)

Full description

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TR 320675. Cropmarks on air photos. CW 062-3 Roman villa?. (1)

In the area of the crop-mark there is a strong scatter of comparatively modern roofing tile. There is no evidence of the enclosure. The site falls on a slight slope on the N side of the Manston Road at TR 31926747. According to local tradition there was an old building or barn hereabouts called "Sparrow Castle". (2)

TR 315675. Cropmarks of a Romano British building. Site number 113, and at TR 319674 cropmarks of an enclosure site no. 115. (3)

TR 31946747. Rectilinear enclosure with some internal features. (4,5)

RCHME AP shows sub-circular cropmark consisting of pit features, adjacent to the enclosure at TR 3191 6752. A possible barrow. (7)

The cropmark shows up particularly well on Google Earth aerial photographs of 2013. (9)

KE 62 Listed as the possible site of a Roman villa. (10)

Site identified during transcription of features recorded on air photographs. (11)

Eleanor Scott, 1993, A gazetteer of Roman villas in Britain (Unspecified Type). SWX23549.

<1> Cambridge Univ. A.P. Catalogue Part 4, 1953, 165 (J.K. St. Joseph) (OS Card Reference). SKE38480.

<2> F1 AC 05-MAR-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41765.

<3> Thanet Arch. Heritage c.1982, 9 (Thanet Dist. Council & Isle of Thanet Arch. Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49867.

<4> AP (NMR TR 3167/16, 1.08.85) (OS Card Reference). SKE33712.

<5> AP (NMR TR 3167/22, 13.06.86) (OS Card Reference). SKE33713.

<6> Isle of Thanet Arch. Unit Sites and Mons. Archive 1988, Record No 113 (OS Card Reference). SKE44738.

<7> Field report for monument TR 36 NW 30 - March, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6233.

<8> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, RCHME Kent pilot mapping programme plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<9> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<11> David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent (OS Card Reference). SKE39678.

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