Monument record TR 36 SE 889 - Five large, rectangular pits, possible Early Medieval grubenhauser.

A 1:2500 scale air photographic survey was carried out by the Aerial Survey section of RCHME between December 1996 and January 1997. To the north-east of the enclosure described in record TR36SE 17, is a line of four large rectangular pits, centred at TR 3595 6463. These range in length from 7m to 10m and may be Anglo Saxon grubenhauser. (1)

The cropmark remains of a cluster of 5-6 pits of varying shape and size described above have been seen centred as a group at TR 3595 6463 and mapped as part of the Historic England:Ramsgate HAZ project. The smallest measures 5m in diameter, the largest 6m x 10m. One may be the footprint of a Second World War pillbox (NRHE 1618077) seen on wartime aerial photographs. (2)

Historic England archive material: 1082726 Ramsgate, Kent/ink AP transcriptio
1082727 Ramsgate, Kent/report AF1066614 RCHME: Ramsgate Causewayed Enclosure Project Transcription of the site was undertaken between 19 December 1996 and 3 January 1997 by RCHME Aerial Survey staff, Swindon as part of the Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Project.Contents : Report, 1 AP transcription, 5 computer plots, 2 correspondence, 2 record forms, miscellaneous materialCondition : INTACT RCH01/113 Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Period In August 1994 staff from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England began a 3 year national project recording sites and monuments connected to industry and enclosure of the Neolithic period. 51 sites, where flint mining occurred and 113 enclosures were recorded for the project, resulting in two separate publications.

<1> Rchme, 1997, Ramsgate Causewayed Enclosure Project (Unpublished document). SKE55507.

<2> AP (NMR TR3564/1 16 7 79) (OS Card Reference). SKE34030.