[TR 34776887] Dene Chapel (NR) (site of) (1) The Manor House Chapel at Dene was licensed c.1224-53 and the ruins, about 40 ft by 20 ft, can be seen in the valley called "Chapel Bottom", by the Margate-Minster road. (2) Field under young crop - no positive evidence of this manor chapel now to be ssen. (3) Field under crop; nothing was seen and nothing has been noted by the farmer when ploughing. (4) TR 348689. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Medieval remains Dene Chapel, site of. Site no. 90. (5)

Cropmark visible on Google Earth 2007 images away from the location indicated on the Ordnance Survey mapping. A rectangular building c.12m x c.6m.

Additional reference (6-9)

The cropmark remains of the site of Dene Chapel can be seen on aerial photographs: EARTH.GOOGLE.COM MAY-2017 and EARTH.GOOGLE.COM MAY-2007. The site appears as a rectangular negative feature on a NW-SE axis measuring 10.5m x 5.5m, surrounded on three sides by traces of buried walls of a building (7m x 13m) with the traces of buried building material extends north-eastwards wards. This lies within a ditched rectilinar enclosures with traces of sub-divisions and traces of futher ditches and enclousures to the NE-and SW. This complex of enclosures is on a NE-SW axis, on the same aligment as the possible building.. Within this complex are further fragments of ditch of a large incomplete sub-rectangular enclosure which appears to represent a different phase of enclosure. These remains have been mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024.(10-11)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Archaeol Cant vol 29 1911 246 (A Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE37255.

<3> Hist of Thanet 1723 61 (J Lewis) (OS Card Reference). SKE44032.

<4> F1 AC 10-APR-53 (OS Card Reference). SKE41785.

<5> F2 CFW 01-OCT-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43193.

<6> Thanet Archaeol Heritage c1982 8 (Thanet Dist Council and Isle of Thanet Archaeol Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49869.

<7> Isle of Thanet Archaeol Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 90 (OS Card Reference). SKE44768.

<8> Field report for monument TR 36 NW 25 - April, 1953 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6230.

<9> Field report for monument TR 36 NW 25 - October, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6231.

<10> Google.Com, 1960-2023, Earth.Google.Com orthophotography, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM APR-2017 ACCESSED 13-NOV-2023 (Archive). SKE57111.

<11> Google.Com, 1960-2023, Earth.Google.Com orthophotography, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM MAY-2007 ACCESSED 13-NOV-2023 (Archive). SKE57111.