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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43301 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Probable saltmounds, south of the Stour, Ash |
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Summary
Two large irregularly shaped cropmarks are visible on 1940s aerial photographs. These cropmarks are interpreted as the plough-levelled remains of salt mounds of probable medieval date. Both are overlain by cropmarks of ridge and furrow (MWX43302).
| Grid Reference: | TR 29237 62596 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26SE |
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| Parish: | ASH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Two large cropmarks are visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. The southernmost cropmark is sub-circular in plan and measures c.30 m in diameter. The northernmost cropmark lies 20m to the NEt and is banana-shaped in plan, it measures c.60 long by 10m wide. They are interpreted as the plough-levelled remains of salt mounds of probable medieval date. Both are overlain by cropmarks of ridge and furrow (MWX43302).
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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council. 2011.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 | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2011.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
| MWX43302 | Parent of: Hay stack stances and ridge and furrow, south of the Stour, Ash (Monument) |
