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Monument details
HER Number: | MWX43023 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Series of sub-circular probable pit features in at North Foreland ranging from the Bronze Age to Iron Age periods. |
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Summary
Eleven sub-circular cut features, likely to be pits, located on the headland at North Foreland in close proximity to a double ditch and bank feature (MWX43002). They are visible as cropmarks on modern aerial photographs and have a possible date range from the Bronze Age to Iron Age periods.
Grid Reference: | TR 39828 69822 |
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Map Sheet: | TR36NE |
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Parish: | BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PIT CLUSTER (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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Eleven sub-circular cut features, likely to be pits, located on the headland at North Foreland, with a possible date range from the Bronze Age to Iron Age periods. They are visible as cropmarks on modern aerial photographs taken in 1983 [1]. The dimensions of the eleven pits range in diameter from 1.5m to 4.5m.
The pit cluster is closely located to the western extent of a monument comprising a bank flanked on either side by a ditch (MWX43002), and approximately 50m to the north-west of another pit feature also seen as a cropmark (Mke9115). The pit cluster is possibly related to both of these features.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [2].
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<2> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <2> | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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. |
<2> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
<2> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |
Related records
MWX43002 | Parent of: Bronze Age/Iron Age double defensive ditch and bank located in North Foreland (Monument) |