Monument record TQ 87 NW 1260 - The slight earthwork traces of a number of fragmented linear boundaries

The slight earthwork traces of a number of fragmented linear boundaries centred at TQ 8153 7613 extending through six adjacent fields. These are thought to be the remains of an embanked field system of uncertain date. These banks were detected as very slight banks on Environment Agency lidar imagery. Aerial photographs taken in 2009 show traces of fragmented linear ditches running parallel to one of these boundaries between TQ 8167 7620 and TQ 8203 7630. However, it is not clear if the ditches and the embanked boundaries are associated with one another. Some appear to be former field boundaries in use at the time of earlier 19th and 20th century mapping. Others, however, appear to have been out of use for longer and can be seen to pre-date medieval/post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation. Fragments of these earlier field boundaries can be seen extending across the ridge of high ground which extends south-west of Allhallows. These were mapped from lidar imagery as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape project. (1-2)

<1> Environment Agency, 2001, LIDAR TQ 8076 Environment Agency D0015763 APR-2001 (Digital archive). SKE57284.

<2> National Monuments Record, 2009, NMR TQ8176/19 24-APR-2009 (Photograph). SKE58614.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive (Archive). SKE58609.