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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43156 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Boundary earthworks, Wickhambreaux Valley |
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Summary
A shallow ditch is visible on 1940s aerial photographs. It appears to be a lost sub-division of the extant mapped field system. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that these features have been plough-levelled.
| Grid Reference: | TR 24951 62657 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26SW |
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| Parish: | WICKHAMBREAUX, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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| STOURMOUTH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DITCH (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- FIELD SYSTEM (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Undated boundary earthworks, Wickhambreaux valley |
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Full description
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A shallow ditch is visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. It continues the alignment of an extant field boundary to its immediate east and is probably a lost sub-division of that field system. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that it has been levelled [2].
Field systems in this area are derived from fields developed following land reclamation from the Wantsum Channel and surrounding marshes between the 11th and 18th centuries. Although the precise date is unclear, the regularity of field shapes and rectilinear nature of boundaries suggest that this system may derive from the latter end of this period.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<2> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.
<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 | | <2> | Graphic material: Google Earth. |
| <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. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011. South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report. |
| <3> | Digital archive: Wessex Archaeology. 2009-10. South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions. |
