More information : [TR 32356680] Earthwork [NR] (1)
The enclosure on the Minster side of the boundary at Cheeseman's Farm, known at Cheeseman's Camp, looks like a homestead moat. Hasted's map shows a similar feature on the opposite side of the road as does a map of 1769. The earlier name of the places seems to have been Cheesmunds. (2,3,4)
Cheeseman's Camp is a subrectangular enclosure measuring some 50.0m NW-SE by 40.0m NE-SW surrounded by a dry ditch 3.5m in width and 0.7m in depth. The enclosed area is generally on a level with the surrounding ground but it is slightly sunken at the W. end; entrance is by a causeway across the ditch on the W. side. This is neither a homestead moat nor a defensive earthwork. Although no building debris is visible the general appearance and proportions of the work and the evident close proximity of a similar feature of which there is now no trace, support Crawford's (a) suggestion that this is the site of a medieval house.
Published 25" survey revised. (5)
Not mentioned in the gazetteer of moated sites in Kent - December 1977and 1979. (6,7)
TR 323669 (accurate to within 50 m only) Medieval(?) moated site. Site no. 132. (8)
Additional bibliography - not consulted. (9)
TR 324668. Earthworks. Earthwork consists of a sub-rectangular enclosure formed by ditches and banks. It is generally thought to be medieval, but the pottery scatter is of Romano British fabrics only. Romano-British cremation burials have been found nearby. At the time of writing (1988) the ditches were being infilled so that the site could be ploughed. (10)
There was little evidence of this feature seen on the ground during field investigation by the OS Reviser. (11)
|