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Avenue remains ?

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Rhiannon Jan 4, 2007 12:01:54

Replying to slumpystones

I'd not heard of this before but quite by chance came across word of it whilst looking for something else. So I copied the relevant bit here
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/54581
I don't know if that's any use.

slumpystones Jan 4, 2007 12:18:36

Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:

Wow, not come across that one before - curiouser, it now starts at Addington and not Coldrum, which means I walked 3 miles uphill further than I needed to, and walked completely the wrong line! Maybe time to speak to Joan and have a look around the Eastern end of the garden for any stray unseen remains...or the back of the gardens of the newer houses in the dark.

slumpystones Jan 4, 2007 12:38:47

Replying to Rhiannon

Just too add a wee note...if you travel up Rochester Road out of Aylesford, cross under the A249 and continue straight on, take the first turning left, the immediate ground to the left is scattered with sarsens as you climb up quite a steep, overgrown road. These could be natural or man-placed, but being in pretty dense woodland doesn't help to make sense of anything. Also, along Gleaming Wood Drive, less than a mile away towards Horsted, the road is lined with local cleared sarsens.

Then of course, there's the name Capstone Park in the same area....

slumpystones Jan 9, 2007 16:33:40

Replying to Rhiannon

In case anyone else wants to try to make sense of Cossington, Tottington, Addington and everything between, Paul Ashbee's excellent if inconclusive report is available here http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/authors/001.pdf