MONUMENT NO. 415745

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Two contiguous rectangular enclosures occupying circa 2 hectares on a ridge top. It has been suggested that they are military earthworks of the C18-19th, but a mound overlying the corner of one of them is reminiscent of a post-mill mound, so they are likely to be Mediaeval or earlier.

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(TQ 73285098) Earthworks [GT] (1)

An unclassified earthwork consisting of a series of banks and ditches with a small mount in one corner. The entrenchments are 21ft at the widest and now poorly defined; the mount has an irregular excavation on the summit. (2)

The earthworks are two contiguous near-rectangular enclosures with feeble banks and ditches. They are clearly minor and comparatively recent, and may be connected with the military encampments on Cox Heath mentioned by Igglesden. The mound, at TQ 73435100, is large, flat-topped and circular, about 28.0m in diameter and 1.8m in height, with a large depression in the top. It is surrounded by a ditch with causeways on the east and west sides. The mound overlies and clearly post-dates the enclosure banks and is probably a mill-mound; it looks like one and the general area goes under the name of 'Windmill Bank' (b). (3)

(TQ 73295099) Enclosures [NAT]
(TQ 73445101) Mound [NAT] (4)

Centred TQ 7328508. These two, linked, bank and ditch earthworks each enclose c. 2 hectares of undulating ridge-top, now coppiced. They are in a fair condition with the banks up to 0.7m high externally and the ditches about 0.4m deep. The eastern enclosure is a later addition as evidenced by the join across the ditch to its neighbour, and in its turn it has been overlaid at the NE angle by a probable windmill mound. However, the time-span of the sequence is not possible to determine from observation alone, neither is the origin and purpose. If as seems likely the mound is the site of a post-mill then a late military origin for the enclosures can be ruled out. Published 1:2500 survey correct. (5)

Additional bibliography. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1961

( 2) edited by William Page 1908 The Victoria history of the county of Kent, volume one

The Victoria history of the counties of England VCH Kent I 1908 438-9 plan (I C Gould) Page(s)438-439

( 3a) General reference

Saunters thro Kent IX 1913 55-6 (C Igglesden)

( 3b) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 AC 07.11.61

( 4) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:10000 1976

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 MJF 19.03.86

( 6) General reference

Archaeology of Kent 1930 160 (R F Jessup)

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