Monument record TR 36 NW 73 - Cropmarks of enclosure, Flete, Margate

Summary

Cropmarks of a rectangular enclosure in the bottom of a small valley. A number of disused wells were reportedly found here during World War I.

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 347 683 (36m by 32m) FCE
Map sheet TR36NW
County KENT
District THANET, KENT
Civil Parish MANSTON, THANET, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

TR 347684. Located to the nearest fifty metres. Cropmarks of enclosure. Site no 88. (1) Here crop marks show a rectangular enclosure in the bottom of a small valley. A number of disused wells were reportedly found here during World War I according to the papers of A. Rowe. (2)

This site may be the same site as TR36NW236 which has been mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024.
A fragment of ditch at TR 3472 6837 mapped also mapped by RCHME as part of the Kent NMP project in the 1980s may also be associated with the original site observed by (1) above. (3-4)


<1> Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 8 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit) (OS Card Reference). SKE49862.

<2> Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 88 (OS Card Reference). SKE44549.

<3> Historic England Archive, 1920-2024, Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs, HEA_35254_011 16_JUN_2022 (Archive). SKE57106.

<4> Historic England Archive, 1920-2024, Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs, NMR 2602/0211 24-APR-1985 (Archive). SKE57106.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: Thanet Arch Heritage c1982 8 (Thanet Dist Council & Isle of Thanet Arch Unit).
  • <2>XY OS Card Reference: Isle of Thanet Arch Unit Sites and Mons Archive 1988 88. [Mapped feature: #63740 cropmark, ]
  • <3> Archive: Historic England Archive. 1920-2024. Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs. HEA_35254_011 16_JUN_2022.
  • <4> Archive: Historic England Archive. 1920-2024. Historic England Archive Specialist oblique aerial photographs. NMR 2602/0211 24-APR-1985.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Dec 10 2024 10:59AM