Monument record TR 25 NW 446 - A cropmark trace of a curving ditch
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 2166 5863 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR25NW |
County | KENT |
District | CANTERBURY, KENT |
Civil Parish | WICKHAMBREAUX, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Full Description
A faint cropmark trace of a curving ditch, centred at TR 2166 5863, forming an arc 30m across. This may possible be part of a ring ditch and it visible from aerial photography.
This ditch is part of a collection of 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)
Visible in an aerial photograph of the NMR archive, 2nd July 1990.
<1> English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document). SKE16345.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SKE16345 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009. Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey.
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Interpretation of cropmarks at Reynolds Place Farm (EKE10620)
Record last edited
May 9 2018 3:08PM