RCHME AP shows 1 mound, part of a large group of 60. [1]

Following detailed examination of aerial photographs held by the National Monuments Record, this location of this feature appears to be 76m NE of where it was originally recorded.

A shallow circular earthwork is visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [2]. The mound measures 9m in diameter and is interpreted as a hay stack stance, a mound for the drying and storage of hay in the damp environment of a riverside meadow. Appears to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark [3]. Similar features have been recorded across the floor of the Stour Valley between Upstreet and the coast, see Related Monuments. They appear to represent an integral part of the medieval or post-medieval farming landscape in this area.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, RCHME Kent Pilot Mapping Programme Plot. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.