Mongeham Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Crop marks reveal some interesting things, and again we scuttle down the rabbit hole.
Google Earth shows crop marks between Great Mongeham church and Ripple, which bear further investigation.
Welcome to the Rabbit Hole
Going down a Rabbit Hole - "To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one that becomes increasingly so as it develops or unfolds." This is an increasingly-common condition as the internet leads us willingly or not into areas of knowledge that we didn't know existed, and that free time in retirement allows us to follow. Those of us lucky enough to have built up a library of random books can now justify keeping them, gathering dust until their unexpected moment of use arrives. Time spent on these unassociated subjects leads to a mass of jottings, notes, spreadsheet and maps which risk being lost to posterity, so here's an attempt to draw some of them together for our interest in nature, local history and so on in east Kent. East Kent , for our purposes, is defined as the triangle edged by the towns of Dover, Canterbury and Sandwich (so broadly the Dover District Council...
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