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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43103 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cropmarks of a post-Roman road northwest of Upstreet |
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Summary
Cropmarks of a hollowway and a trackway are visible in the field lying immediately northwest of Upstreet on 1980s aerial photographs. The features are interpreted as post-Roman in date as the hollowway partially overlies cropmarks of the southern side of a Roman Road. The hollowway may represent an earlier alignment of the present road thorough Upstreet.
| Grid Reference: | TR 22261 62852 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26SW |
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| Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Cropmarks of Roman roads and enclosures, west of Upstreet |
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Full description
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Cropmarks of a hollow way and a possible trackway are visible in the field lying immediately northwest of Upstreet on 1980s RCHME oblique aerial photographs [1-2].
A wide ditched feature, interpreted as a hollow way, initially follows a similar course to the Roman road (MWX43012), initially obscuring its southern ditch, then curves south-eastwards, towards the alignment of present road, finally flowing into the present road. The other feature is composed of two parallel ditches and is visible running for 180m aligned NNW-SSE. This crosses the alignment of the Roman road but appears to abut the hollow way. These ditches may represent field boundaries abutting the hollow way or a trackway.
The features are interpreted as post-Roman in date as the hollow way partially overlies cropmarks of the southern side of the Roman road and the possible trackway crosses it without an apparent break. The hollow way may represent an earlier version of the kink away from the original course of the Roman road that is visible in the present road through Upstreet.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<3> 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 | | <1> | 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. |
| <3> | 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. |
