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Monument details

Summary

Several linear ditched features visible as cropmarks in fields immediately west of Fordwich which are likely to be of a later Prehistoric or Romano-British date.

Monument Types

• LINEAR EARTHWORK (Early Neolithic to Post Medieval - 4000 BC to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Fragments of several linear ditched features visible are as cropmarks in field immediately west of Fordwich on 1980s RCHME oblique aerial photographs [1]. Interpretation of the features is hampered by the fact that most features are only partially visible; cropmarks showing only in sections of the field with the remainder of it apparently being not conducive to cropmark production.

The features comprise a sinuous E-W aligned linear feature, 250m length visible, and a Y-shaped ditched feature lying immediately to the north, around 45m length visible. The features appear to be fragments of a boundary or enclosure system which may represent a continuation of the system recorded as MWX43014, 60m to the south, which are likely to be of Later Prehistoric or Romano-British date.

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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.

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