Information for record number MWA6236:
Undated Linear Crop Marks 100m N of Swivel Bridge

Summary Linear features of unknown date and function are visible as crop marks on aerial photographs. The features lie 100m north of Kingsbury Swivel Bridge.
What Is It?  
Type: Linear Feature
Period: Unknown
Where Is It?  
Parish: Kingsbury
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 20 97
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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2 A number of linear features of uncertain significance show on aerial photographs.
3 Features mapped as part of English Heritage (EH) National Mapping Project (NMP). Only Features that were well defined were mapped. Smaller cropmarks that may be significant, but which were difuse and not sufficently defined by shape or size to be positively identified as being caused by human activity, were not mapped.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Aerial Photograph
Title: SP2097
Author/originator: JP
Date: 1977
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: SP2097 A-E, I-J
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Aerial Photograph
Title: SP2097/3 Frame 25
Author/originator: J Pickering
Date: 10 Aug 1977
Page Number: Frame 25
Volume/Sheet: SP2097/3
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: R.C. Hingley personal comments
Author/originator: R C Hingley
Date:
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Glossary

 
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technique Cropmark Cropmarks appear as light and dark marks in growing and ripening crops. These marks relate to differences in the soil below. For example, parched lines of grass may indicate stone walls. Crops that grow over stone features often ripen more quickly and are shorter than the surrounding crop. This is because there is less moisture in the soil where the wall lies.

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technique Aerial Photograph Aerial photographs are taken during an aerial survey, which involves looking at the ground from above. It is usually easier to see cropmarks and earthworks when they are viewed from above. Aerial photographs help archaeologists to record what they see and to identify new sites. There are two kinds of aerial photographs; oblique and vertical. back
monument FEATURE * Areas of indeterminate function. back
monument LINEAR FEATURE * A length of straight, curved or angled earthwork or cropmark of uncertain date or function. back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument BRIDGE * A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known. back

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