Monument record TR 36 NW 62 - Bronze Age barrow cropmarks near Shottendane Farm, Margate

TR 346697. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of Bronze Age barrows. Site no. 43. (1)

A 1:2500 scale air photographic survey was carried out in this area by the Aerial Survey section of RCHME in October to December 1996. The ring ditch described by the previous authority was identified at TR 3472 6984 on vertical air photographs taken by the RAF on 11/04/51 (58/618 5138-9). It is approximately 16m in diameter. (2)

Historic England Archive material: 1082789 Margate, Kent/ink AP transcription
1082806 Margate, Kent/repo AF1065836 RCHME: Margate Projt Photographic transcription of the site was undertaken between October and December 1996 by RCHME Aerial Survey staff, Swindon, as part of the Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic project.Contents : Report, AP transcription, 2 computer plots, 3 record forms, miscellaneous research materialCondition : INTACT
RCH01/113 Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Period In August 1994 staff from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England began a 3 year national project recording sites and monuments connected to industry and enclosure of the Neolithic period. 51 sites, where flint mining occurred and 113 enclosures were recorded for the project, resulting in two separate publications.

<1> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 5 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49859.

<2> Historic England, Archive material associated with RCHME Margate Project (Archive). SKE55504.