Monument record TR 25 NW 447 - A cropmark trace of a ditch

Summary

A faint cropmark trace of a ditch.

Location

Grid reference TR 2182 5863 (point)
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 ditch, visible from aerial photography. This may be part of a ring ditch and is centred at TR 2182 5863.

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)

This cropmark is visible in an aerial photograph from the NMR archive, 2nd July 1990.


<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 English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document).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 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2009.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 Events/Activities (1)

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

Record last edited

May 9 2018 3:08PM