Heritage, Geomorphology and Land Use
This project will identify heritage assets on land across Romney Marsh, and then inform land owners of the value of these assets to encourage them to manage the asset and the land sympathetically.
The project will be delivered through volunteers who will help the Heritage Officer and Officers from the KCC Heritage team to identify where there may be ruins of old churches or other buildings of architectural interest/importance. Any records created will be input by the Kent and Medway Biological Record Centre to be held for future generations.
Heritage, Geomorphology and Land Use contributes to Restore project theme.
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Heritage projects update
As the Government eases the lockdown, we are working towards a gradual return to heritage activities. We are constantly balancing what is possible with what is sensible. Some activities, such as a large community dig, will be a while away. However, we do feel that we can offer some remote finds processing. If you have taken part in this activity at the Visitor Centre over the past year and would like to get involved, please contact Andrew. We will be working though the marking of the Brenzett dig finds. Volunteers will collect the finds and the marking material from the Visitor Centre and then carry out the activity from the comfort of their own homes!
£2,000 award towards new Romney Heritage Trail
Huge thanks are sent to Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm Community Fund (Kent Community Foundation) for their financial support of £2,000 towards a forthcoming project, a new heritage trail for the town of New Romney. Working with a number of local partners, including the heritage centre at the Old School, we’ll be helping to showcase the fascinating historical story and characterful buildings of the town. We’ll have further updates as this exciting project progresses.
Finds processing continues…
In early March we ran a finds processing session, where the volunteers continued to work on marking and processing the finds from our Brenzett dig last August. The volunteers are also working hard to complete the transcription of the Brenzett Church survey.
Surveys of two historic buildings taken place
Two historic buildings surveys have taken place this month. The first was of a Looker’s Hut in East Guldeford which has sadly fallen down in the last year and the second was of a farm cottage in Snargate.
Finds Processing Drop-in Sessions
We have been processing the material from the Solly Farm excavation in a number of drop-in sessions. So far we have cleaned 75% of the material but we still need to photograph and mark everything up. The next drop-in sessions are going to be on the 10th May and 15th May between 10:30 am and 3:30pm at the Fifth Continent office.
Archaeological excavation
This month we have done our first archaeological excavation at one of our landholdings. Our previous geophysical surveys have shown there to be remains of a farmstead near Brookland and we have carried out a small excavation to see if we can date the building. Early signs show the building may be a couple of hundred years older than we had previously thought. One of the finds was a spur thought to date from the 17thCentury (image above).
Archaeological surveys complete
Archaeological surveys took place on the Marsh on 2nd and 5th November – Our volunteers carried out a geophysical survey on one of the landholdings in our Heritage, Geomorphology and Land-use project.
This project is planned to start in 2018.
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It is planned to create a number of short films about Romney Marsh during the life of the scheme and this will include recording the progress of the projects. Go to the film footage page to get details of the films we have produced so far.
To find out more including how to get involved contact the project team.
