Undated cropmark of rectangular feature, East of Little Oakley (EHER 45745)

A cropmark of a rectangular feature, with the NW corner cut away by the sea wall. It is possibly an enclosure but could be part of a field system. Geophysical survey in 2022 was undertaken to locate the feature but the evidence yielded by the survey was uncertain, and an anomaly at the location may instead be indicative of a saltern.

Cropmarks of part of a rectangular feature. NW corner cut away by sea wall. Possibly an enclosure but could be part of a field system? <1> See also <2> May 2022. Geophysical survey. 'Block 3' of the magnetometer survey was positioned to locate the remains known from cropmark evidence. A cluster of high magnitude anomalies stands out in the centre of this block. However it is not clear whether the location of this anomaly correlates with the rectangular cropmark, or perhaps instead might locate a saltern. A more plausible anomaly could be that found in 'Block 2' situated further North and which may better align to the location of the cropmark. A NW-SE aligned linear anomaly locates a former field boundary recorded on historic OS mapping, and another linear anomaly has been tentatively interpreted as archaeological on the basis that it is oriented oblique to current or former boundaries and therefore cannot be interpreted as agricultural with any certainty. <3>