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CAN YOU HELP?

We have been asked to help identify this stone slab, can you help?

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It is in a wood near Ulcombe.  It is c.140cm long, c.70cm wide and c.15cm thick and probably an oolitic limestone. It has a lip around the edge and slopes so that the central area is c.1-2cm to c.6cm deep (left to right on the photo). 

Within the recessed area there are patches of concrete/cement slip often less than 1cm thick. This has been applied over the surface and to fill cracks and holes/hollows (it is not clear if it once covered all of the central area of the stone and has broken away or if it was only patchy to start with).

It is set into the ground level. There are no buildings within 50-60m and nothing mapped on the OS until the 1930s; the area is consistently shown as woodland.

Do you know what was it originally used for or what is it doing set into the ground in the middle of a managed woodland?

Replies to Ben Croxford (Historic Environment Record Officer, KCC) Tel: 01622 223528 
Ben.Croxford@kent.gov.uk

WHAT'S HERE

ABOUT THE KAS  - Here we tell you what the Society does, how it goes about its work, grants available, membership and how to join, who's who in the Society and our latest annual report.

ACTIVITIES & INFORMATION - The Diary with a list of our activities and events, lectures, excursions and links to other web sites.

NEWSLETTERS -copies of our Newsletter from 2002.

PUBLICATIONS - We publish books and this section contains a list of them.

RESEARCH - Contents pages of 123 Volumes of Archaeologia Cantiana, Medieval Will Transcriptions, pictures from the Society’s collection, M.I.s from Kent Churchyards and other records of interest to researchers.

LIBRARY & ARTICLES - Our '.ac' web site with articles on Kent history and library catalogues.

OUR 'AC' WEB SITE

Our 'ac' web site www.kentarchaeology.ac is the main online publishing site of the Society. This is a peer reviewed site delivering articles, publications and records in electronic form including an index of East Kent wills. It also provides searchable catalogues of the collections of books, visual records and documents held by the Society.

Click the link above to go there.