Monument record TR 25 NW 439 - A double concentric ring ditch visible as a cropmark

Summary

A double concentric ring ditch visible as a cropmark centred at TR 2158 5856.

Location

Grid reference TR 2157 5855 (point)
Map sheet TR25NW
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish WICKHAMBREAUX, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full Description

A double concentric ring ditch centred at TR 2158 5856 visible as a cropmark through aerial photography. The inner ditch circuit measures approximately 16.5m and the outer circuit approximately 21.8m.

This ring ditch is part of a collection of five probable Bronze Age barrows forming a linear cemetery running NE-SW alongside the Little Stour. It is possible that the barrow cemetery extends further to the north-east beneath Wickhambreaux village and south-west into adjacent fields. However the area to the south-west is cultivated with orchards and so traces of buried features are unidentifiable from aerial photography as with the village. As this site has been ploughed for a number of centuries all features appear to have been levelled. It is likely that very little of the barrow structures survive, though on the southern edge of the alignment deeper soil which appears to obscure parts of some of the ring ditches may have helped to preserve more of the buried remains. (1)


<1> English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document). SKE16345.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey.

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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Interpretation of cropmarks at Reynolds Place Farm (EKE10620)

Record last edited

Mar 21 2022 12:18PM