More information : [Centred at TQ 6723 5072] Camp [NR] (1)
Possible Early Iron Age earthworks. (2)
Iron Age hill-top camp ... (3)
Nettlestead: Milbay's Wood. The entrenchments vary both in width of
base and character without any apparent object, and do not form a
complete enclosure. If ever the entrenchments did continue to enclose a space, the enclosure would have been large but "an early stronghold defended by such irregular entrenchments would be very unusual. They stand in a very marshy wood." (4)
The northern section of this "earthwork", TQ 6703 5093 to TQ 6722
5073, consists of boundary banks, hollow-ways and lesser traffic-ruts.It is not an antiquity.
The southern section, TQ 6722 5073 to TQ 6732 5072, is a separate
feature and not defensive either in character or position. It
consists of a central bank some 5.0 metres to 6.0 metres high at its
highest part and about 20.0 metres wide, with flanking ditches about
12.0 metres wide and at present between 1.0 metres to 2.0 metres deep.It runs in an angled course from high ground to high ground and
adequately fulfils the purpose of a pond bay. The flanking ditches
are an uncommon feature but are undoubtedly incidental to the
construction of the bank.
Various tracks and banks, of a similar nature to the northern section,converge on its eastern extremity, and it is likely that it was in useas a causeway across the marshy ground at some time.
Various roads have crossed the area and a mill is said to have stood
hereabouts. This latter fact coupled with the name of the wood -
Milbay's - leave no doubt as the true nature of the work.
An Antiquity Model survey has been made. (5)
Checked and correct: published 25" survey correct. (6)
Scheduled number Kent 114. (7)
Additional bibliography. (8-9)
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