November 2012

Client: Homes and Communities Agency

Issue No: 1

Invoice Code: NOHCEV

NGR: TQ 636 743

Stage 1 Trial Trenching

North East EmbankmentFormer Henley Cable Works

Northfl eet

Kent

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Figure 2: Trench locations overlain on First Edition Ordnance Survey map (1865)

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Plate 2: Sondage, looking north-east

Plates 1 - 2

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Plate 3: Shell deposit, looking north-east

Plate 4: Brick wall, looking south-west

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Plate 5: Trench 2. Bear pit, looking south-west

Plate 6: Base of bear pit, looking east-south-east

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Pulley

Archway

Metal bar

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Plate 7: Metal pulley, bar and archway, looking south-west

Plate 8: Bear pit showing archway (undated

photograph: © Lynda Smith)

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Arched roof

Demolition cut

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Plate 9: Walls and remains of arched roof and demolition cut 270, looking north-west

Plate 10: Iron bar and arch, looking south-west

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Demolition cut

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Bear Pit

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Plate 11: Trench 3, looking south

Plate 12: Trench 2. Demolition cut 266 and bear pit, looking west

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