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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43476 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Two curvilinear banks visible as cropmarks, Betteshanger Colliery |
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Summary
Two curvilinear banks visible as cropmarks, Betteshanger Colliery and mapped from aerial photographs taken in April 1978.
| Grid Reference: | TR 33608 53300 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35SW |
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| Parish: | NORTHBOURNE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2350 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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Two curvilinear features visible as cropmarks are located beside the Betteshanger Colliery. The two banks form a possible boundary feature that may date to the Bronze Age or Iron Age periods. A large section of this feature has been developed over some time between 1981 and 2003 [1] and so consequently may have been lost.
The bank features were mapped from aerial photography taken in April 1978 [2]; the northern feature is visible for 375m and the southern one for c.570m on this photograph.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<1> Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage, 2003, 2007, Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3353 14-AUG-2003 (Graphic material). SWX15711.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Graphic material: Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage. 2003, 2007. Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3353 14-AUG-2003. |
