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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43588 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthworks south of the North Stream, near Sandwich |
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Summary
A bank and a short length of ditch are visible as earthworks lying in a field immediately south of the North Stream on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs. These features are likely to relate to the boundary and water management features shown in the area on historic Ordnance Survey mapping which is likely to be medieval or early-post medieval in date.
| Grid Reference: | TR 34292 58015 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35NW |
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| Parish: | SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- DITCH (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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A bank and a short length of ditch are visible as earthworks lying in a field immediately south of the North Stream on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1].
The bank is c.9m wide and runs fro c.200m around nearly 1/3 of the perimeter of the field in which it lies, turning away from this course and curving into the centre of the close to its north-westerly edge. A ditch lies 10m to the west of the bank and follows a straight ESE-WNW alignment for c.50m before running into the adjacent field drain. These features are likely to relate to the boundary and water management features shown in the area on historic Ordnance Survey mapping and probably represent an previously unrecorded element of this system [2]. This system is likely to be medieval or early-post medieval in date.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].
<2> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.
<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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. |
| <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. |
