Crop Markings at Fawkham, Kent

74 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. CROP MARKINGS AT FAWKHAM, KENT. The investigation of the suggestive crop markings at Fawkham, Kent, first noticed by Mr. Raine and afterwards recorded by the late J. M. Brander (Arch. Cant., XLVII (1935), 241) wUl now have to be postponed until field work on any scale again becomes possible. In the meantime, the attached obHque air photograph obtained through the kind offices of Mr. O. G. S. Crawford is of distinct interest. The cMef feature is a rounded pentagonal-shaped enclosure Avith a Avide entrance road-way or ditch in one side. The entrance is expanded at its outer end and joins at an angle of some 25 degrees a ditch or road-way, one side of which is clear for some distance untU it appears to meet another enclosure of lobed form to the west. The entrance to the first enclosure is interrupted, and other points of interest are the dark patches in the angular ditch, in the enclosure itseH, and in the immediate neighbourhood. The white patches in the lower right-hand part of the picture are ploughed-in dene-holes, and another dene-hole exists in a field bank to the north of the site. Visits to the site at various times over a period have not revealed any clues on the ground except two sherds of sub- Roman pottery from inside the first enclosure, and haU a dozen poor flint flakes from other parts of the surface of the field. Auger tests of the ditch areas produced no conclusive results. The whole area would certainly repay detaUed examination by the spade, but for the present one can but record it and notice its general similarity in plan to the early Iron Age farm caUed Woodbury, near Salisbury, wMch was excavated with such success by the Prehistoric Society. It may perhaps be worth noting that the site is almost at the junction of the parish boundaries of Longfleld, Fawkham, and Horton Kirby. R. F. JESSUP. / CROP MARKINGS SEAR SALT FARM, FAy\*KttAM. Approximate scale: 1/3360. Ordnance Survey: Crown copyright reserved.