Monument record TR 35 SW 137 - Ten ring ditches & rectangular & oval enclosures

Summary

Ten ring ditches & rectangular & oval enclosures possible Prehistoric or Roman settlement

Location

Grid reference TR 3052 5237 (point) GCE
Map sheet TR35SW
County KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish EASTRY, DOVER, KENT

Map

Type and Period (4)

Full Description

TR 30505252. Ten ring ditches, rectangular and oval enclosures, west of the Dover Road. Possible Barrow Cemetery. (1)

A group of at least seven circular and sub-circular ditched enclosures ranging in size from 4m to 14m across and are considered to be plough-levelled remains of a prehistoric hut circle settlement. The largest enclosure lies at TR30535235, its outer ditch is 2m wide, with the remains of a second ditch or palisade trench, approxiamately 0.5m wide lying 2m inside the first. Immediately to the south of this enclosure at TR30535234 is a group of at least four overlaping sub-circular enclousres 6-9m across, the largets of which also appears to have an internal palisade. Two ring ditches 5m across, lies at TR30555242 it is the northern-most enclosure of this group and a small gap in its north-west side may represent the position of an entrance. (3)


<1> AP's NMR 332 (OS Card Reference). SKE34327.

<2> KARU Record Card DV 487 (OS Card Reference). SKE45557.

<3> National Monuments Record, 1997, Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic: Possible Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures (Unpublished document). SKE6569.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1>XY OS Card Reference: AP's NMR 332. [Mapped feature: #60845 settlement?, ]
  • <2> OS Card Reference: KARU Record Card DV 487.
  • <3> Unpublished document: National Monuments Record. 1997. Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic: Possible Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures.

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Air Photograph Interpretation at Eastry and Tilmanstone (EKE22365)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: RCHME: Kent Mapping Project (EKE20439)

Record last edited

Jun 12 2023 10:48AM