Harrison, D. (2018). Lavenders Road, West Malling, Kent; Geophysical Survey. Headland Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083696. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Lavenders Road, West Malling, Kent; Geophysical Survey
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Series:		 Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd undertook a geophysical (magnetometer) survey of a 4 hectare site at West Malling, Kent, where a new residential development is proposed. The Proposed Development Area (PDA) is located immediately adjacent to St Marys Abbey, a medieval nunnery, which is protected as a Scheduled Monument. The PDA contains the crash site of a Battle of Britain Supermarine Spitfire, a Site of Protected Military Remains. No anomalies of definite archaeological potential have been identified by the survey and no anomalies have been identified to locate the Spitfire crash site. Fragmented parallel linear trends in the south-west of the site may locate soil-filled ditches flanking a trackway. A circular anomaly nearby may be due to ring-ditch. These anomalies are ascribed moderate to high archaeological potential. Broad clusters of high magnitude discrete anomalies may be caused by infilled pits. However, in the absence of any clear pattern a geological origin cannot be dismissed. They anomalies may be due to soil-filled solution hollows in the bedrock, or even to infilled tree root boles, and are ascribed moderate archaeological potential. Survey was restricted in the north-west quadrant of the site by mature trees and a manége and the magnetic data here is dominated by modern magnetic disturbance. No confident archaeological interpretation of this area can be given. Therefore, on the basis of the geophysical survey, the archaeological potential in the south-west of the site, adjacent to the Abbey precinct wall, is assessed as moderate, and low in the east.
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Author:		 D Harrison
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Publisher:		 Headland Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2018
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Site: Land off Lavenders Road
County: Kent
District: Tonbridge and Malling
Parish: WEST MALLING
Country: England
Grid Reference: 568420, 157550 (Easting, Northing)
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GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY (Event)
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OASIS Id: headland5-337482
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Created Date:		 16 Feb 2021