Monument record TQ 95 SW 18 - Deneholes (Sites of)

Summary

Three deneholes near the edge of Crabb Wood.

Location

Grid reference TQ 9305 5397 (point) Centred on
Map sheet TQ95SW
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish OTTERDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

Near Crab Wood, are two deneholes, open and in good condition, in a strip of woodland, at TQ 9312 5382 and TQ 9314 5384. Each appears to have three chambers and is about 8.0 metres deep. At TQ 9296 5413 there is a collapsed denehole in a strip of woodland near the Warren Street - Doddington Road. The pit is 8.0 metres in diameter and about 2.0 metres deep. Surveyed at 1:2500. (1) Deneholes at TQ 9312 5382 and TQ 9314 5384 are being obliterated by filling in and subsequent cultivation. (2) [TQ 9297 5414] Denehole [NR] (site of) [NAT] [TQ 9312 5381 and TQ 9314 5384] Deneholes [NR] (sites of) [NAT] The denhole at TQ 9296 5413 is as described by F1, with trees and bushes growing in the pit. At the edge of Crabb Wood, but still within it, are three, not two, deneholes either collapsed or partly filled since 1963. That at TQ 9312 5381 is a pit 4 metres in diameter and 4 metres deep; the others, at TQ 9313 5382 and TQ 9314 5383, are both 3.5 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres deep. (3-4)


<1> F1 ASP 12-Jul-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42071.

<2> LS Reviser 2/69 (OS Card Reference). SKE46207.

<3> Field report for monument TQ 95 SW 18 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4850.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 95 SW 18 - October, 1986 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4851.

<5> OS 1:10000 197 (OS Card Reference). SKE48154.

<6> F2 NVQ 14-Oct-86 (OS Card Reference). SKE43354.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <1>XY OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 12-Jul-63. [Mapped feature: #34731 denehole, ]
  • <2> OS Card Reference: LS Reviser 2/69.
  • <3> Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 95 SW 18 - July, 1963.
  • <4> Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 95 SW 18 - October, 1986.
  • <5> OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 197.
  • <6> OS Card Reference: F2 NVQ 14-Oct-86.

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Record last edited

Oct 15 2021 1:46PM