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Natural PlacesSite Name: Great Tottington FarmCountry: England County: Kent Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Village: Aylesford
Map Ref: TQ73956038
Latitude: 51.315938N Longitude: 0.494696E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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medwayexplorer visited on 26th Nov 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Lots of springs, ponds and large stones here. Beautiful site with lots of footpaths.
"A group of sarsens round a springhead at Tottington, are in great disorder, some being half-buried in the stream and it is evident that the circle, if ever there was one, was a monument on its own and not set up round a barrow.
Tottington was an ancient manor. It is now a farmhouse with part of the ancient building standing detached at the west end. It is surrounded by a deep moat fed by springs. The large sarsens about the yard were undoubtedly taken up in digging the moat.
At Tottington the Aylesford Tithe Map, 1840 shows a rectangular waterfilled homestead moat with a causeway in the NW side. Within the enclosed area is a house, L shaped on plan, situated at the north end of the present cottages, with the longer wing running SW from the S end.
At Great Tottington there are the mutilated remains of a homestead moat, now dry except for a pond at the NE corner. It would appear to have been rectangular on plan, the enclosed area measuring approx. 34m NW-SE by 25 m. transversely. The NE arm has been filled in, though its outline is still discernible; the other arms remain as shallow depressions. Near the SE corner is a spring which probably fed the moat; the water is now piped away. Within the moat are two fairly modern cottages; there is no evidence of the earlier manor-house. N of and surrounding the moat and farm buildings, are large numbers of sarsens, none of which are of any archaeological significance. Antiquity Model survey carried out.
Cottages demolished, Moat now fairly overgrown."
Source: Exploring Kent's Past.
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