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Re: Tumulus, Boyke Lane by coldrum on Sunday, 06 November 2011

From Exploring Kent's Past:

"The monument includes a bowl barrow of Bronze Age date which comprises an earthern mound and an encircling ditch. The mound measures 21m in diameter and stands to an impressive 2.8m above the general ground level. The surrounding ditch has been completely infilled by erosion from the mound and is no longer visible on the surface. It would have been dug originally to provide the earth for the construction of the mound. The mound and the ditch together have a diameter of 25m.

The summit of the mound is marked by a shallow depression which corroborates the records of a small-scale parital excavation by a Captian North in the later 19th Century, during which investigation pieces of Bronze Age pottery and other unidentified bones and flint flakes were found. On the southern side of the mound is a second small infilled excavation trench which dates from the Second World War."

http://extranet7.kent.gov.uk/ExploringKentsPast/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MKE4380

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