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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43153 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible floodbanking, Stourmouth Valley |
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Summary
Parallel banks are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. They appear to continue the alignment of flood banking recorded on early Ordinance Survey maps and probably represent a contemporary, but unmapped, element of this scheme, itself of probable medieval or post-medieval date. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that these features have been levelled.
| Grid Reference: | TR 25114 64037 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26SE |
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| Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FLOOD DEFENCES? (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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Parallel banks are visible as earthworks on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The banks run for 110m aligned roughly E-W and appear to demark a slight stream. They also continue the alignment of flood banking, of probable medieval or post-medieval date, recorded on early Ordnance Survey maps [2]. It is probable that they represent a contemporary, but unmapped, element of this scheme. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that these features have been levelled [3].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].
<2> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.
<3> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<4> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. |
| <3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <4> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
| <4> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |
