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Monument Number 463325
Hob Uid: 463325
Location : Kent Swale Selling
Grid Ref : TR0415055420
Summary : A sub rectangular earthwork consisting of a ditch between two banks surrounds the hilltop on which stood Shottenden Mill. The enclosure had been surveyed in 1878 and recorded in 1796 when it was considered to be Roman. The windmill had gone by 1925. A telegraph station, sometimes known as Old Wives Lees, part of the Deal line of the Admiralty Shutter Telegraph System circa 1790 was also sited on the hill.
More information : [TR 04205540] Shottenden Mill [NAT] (1) [TR 04205540] Earthwork [NR] (2) An earthwork around Shottenden Mill, 0.75 miles south of Selling, was surveyed in 1878 by Petrie whose plan bears a resemblance to the O.S. 6" survey of 1955 (4) and shows a sub-rectangular earthwork consisting of a ditch between two banks round the top of a hill. Crawford noted that the windmill had vanished when he visited the site. (3-5) The greater part of this earthwork is totally obscured by fir trees. The feature where accesible on the S.E. side is reduced to a terrace on the hillside. Turning northwards it develops into a medial ditch with low banks. There is no trace of the windmill. (6) Shottenden Mill is not mentioned in "Windmills of Kent", 1979, by J. West. (7) A windmill standing on Shottenden Hill was formerly a well-known landmark. A telegraph station, sometimes known as Old Wives' Lees, part of the Deal line of the Admiralty Shutter telegraph system c. 1796, was also sited on the hill. A letter to the Gentleman's Magazine in 1796 described the situation of the telegraph station and added that the Romans used the hill as an encampment. He included sketches of the site showing the Roman ditch around the land containing the windmill and the telegraph. (8,9)

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Source details : OS 1" 1801
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Source details : OS 6" 1961
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Source details : Add MS 31 333 (W M F Petrie)
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Source details : SS 6" (D R Arthur Reviser 28 4 1955)
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Source details : Rec 6" (O G S Crawford 10 5 1925)
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Source details : F1 ASP 24-MAY-63
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : The Old Telegraphs 1976 10 20 Map (G Wilson)
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : Gentleman's Magazine Library I 1887 BB Rems 157-8 (Z Cosens)
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Source Number : 9a
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Source details : Historical and Toporaphical Survey of the county of Kent 1778 (E Hasted)
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Source Number : 9b
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Source details : Gentleman's Magazine I 1796 473-5 (Z Cosens)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Enclosure, Earthwork
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Windmill, Shutter Telegraph Station
Evidence : Uncertain Evidence, Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Earthwork
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TR 05 NW 7
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1963-05-24
End Date : 1963-05-24

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 463325