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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43369 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible drainage channel, Minster Marshes |
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Summary
A dry, Y-shaped, depression is visible in this field on 1940s aerial photographs. It may represent a former drainage channel which may be associated with the reclamation of land from the Wantsum Channel during the medieval and earlier post-medieval periods.
| Grid Reference: | TR 31576 62939 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36SW |
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| Parish: | MINSTER, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A dry, Y-shaped, depression is visible in this field on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. It is 100m long and measures 13m across at its narrow, eastern end, and flares out to 60m wide at its western end. The flared end is adjacent to a field drain and it is possible that the depression joins into this drain. This drain is shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping [2] but examination of recent aerial photographs indicates that it has since been removed and the depression itself levelled [3].
This feature may represent a former drainage channel which may be associated with the reclamation of land from the Wantsum Channel during the medieval and earlier post-medieval periods.
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, viewed on 02/06/2010 (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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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. viewed on 02/06/2010. |
| <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. |
